西方流动性研究与交通地理学的对话:进展、启示与展望

Mobility studies and transport geography in the West:Progress,implications and prospects

随着现代社会空间和个人流动性水平的持续提升以及流动模式的日益复杂化,社会科学与空间科学领域对流动性的关注也持续升温。“流动转向”以来,西方流动性研究和交通地理学研究经历了激烈的碰撞,逐步展开了广泛深入的对话,推进了双方的互动发展和研究创新。而现有国内交通地理学对流动性的研究相对滞后,且跨学科的互利对话尚未有效开展。因而论文重点关注西方新流动性研究与交通地理学的对话交流与研究进展,通过梳理二者在流动性实践和意义、流动性不平等、信息通信技术与流动性3个共同议题下的探索,总结对国内交通地理学流动性研究的启示,并结合中国地理学相关研究现状以及社会发展与技术革新带来的流动性加剧状况,提出面向日常流动性的研究展望。中国流动性研究应进一步拓展流动性的多元内涵,丰富研究主体和尺度,辩证思考流动性价值,嵌入社会技术情境,并探索多元研究方法创新。

Mobility is ubiquitous and flourishing,and its impact on society,space,and individuals is becoming increasingly complex in the continuously changing sociotechnical environment of the contemporary world.Since the start of the"mobility turn",Western mobility studies and transport geography have experienced a fierce collision and gradually developed an extensive and in-depth dialogue,which have jointly promoted the inclusive development of mobility study in geography.However,the existing study on mobilities in geography in China has lagged behind,the research is mostly confined to the internal discourse system of sub-disciplines,and the mutually beneficial dialogue between disciplines has not been carried out effectively,which has not fully stimulated the research innovation in this interdisciplinary field.Therefore,in this article,we focused on the dialogue between Western new mobility study and transport geography and reviewed the key literature on mobility studies in the Western geographic research since 2006,which connects mobility study and transport geography in three common topics—mobility practice and meaning,mobility inequality,and information and communication technology and mobility.This article proposed a rethinking of mobility theory and its fruitful connotation,characteristics,and value,as well as outlining some avenues for future research where further conversation would continue in the area of daily mobility study,taking into account the current local context.We argued that the complementary and progressive nature of mobility research and transport geography constitute the premise of their dialogue,which also suggests that deepening the understanding of the multiplicity,relationality,and contextuality of the connotation of mobility,as well as integrating more dialectical thinking,will drive more innovation in mobility research.In the future,mobility research in China should further expand the multiple connotations of mobility,enrich the subjects and scales of research,think dialectically about the value of mobility,associate with sociotechnical contexts,and explore methodology innovations.Mobility study in the context of China could make great contributions to global research and promote the decentralization and further diversification of the international context.