Undertaking critical mobilities research can mean different things. First, the choice of the research object – mobilities – and the development of the new mobilities paradigm as a theoretical and methodological frame constitutes a general critique of traditional social research. Secondly, critical mobilities can be understood as placing attention on the interweaving of power relations and mobility. Here, the research object itself, mobilities, moves into the focus of critique. As an immanent form of critique, mobilities research may take a position within the current contestations on future mobility regimes by carving out the self-contradictions within the current mobility order. For the latter, critical mobilities entails a transformative impulse.
Undertaking critical mobilities research can mean different things. First, the choice of the research object – mobilities – and the development of the new mobilities paradigm as a theoretical and methodological frame constitutes a general critique of traditional social research. Secondly, critical mobilities can be understood as placing attention on the interweaving of power relations and mobility. Here, the research object itself, mobilities, moves into the focus of critique. As an immanent form of critique, mobilities research may take a position within the current contestations on future mobility regimes by carving out the self-contradictions within the current mobility order. For the latter, critical mobilities entails a transformative impulse.