Allison Hui
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Hui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Hui |
| SIGNATURE | HUI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0621-9017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices
Whilst work on decolonising methodologies has persisted for more than 20 years, engagement remains uneven. Despite rich discussions of indigenous methodologies and decolonial thinking, the challenge of 'methodological stasis' remains, as Western knowledges, research practices and methods continue to dominate. This article argues for new critiques and concepts to further decolonial efforts. It first situates a discussion of methodological stasis i…
Steering the future of travel demand
With governments around the world committed to radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and transport-related mobilities making up a significant proportion of current carbon emissions, questions of how to change mobility systems have become a pressing concern. Yet the urgency of this challenge cannot be met with more of the same – particularly in terms of narrow discussions of behaviour change that fail to draw upon the wealth of rele…
Demanding Energy
Understanding the positioning of “the electric vehicle consumer”
The discursive category of “the consumer” has multiple characterizations, connected to varied accounts of social action, relations and change. This paper is interested in the implications of these varied characterizations for understanding the interdisciplinary knowledge about mobility systems being marshalled in the pursuit of social change. It focuses upon the case of electric vehicles (EVs), examining the varied representations of consumers in…
Concepts and methodologies for a new relational geography of energy demand
Understandings of space as not an objective surface or container but rather a set of relations that are continually made and re-made have become well established within the social sciences, yet they remain noticeably absent in how energy demand research is understood and undertaken. This is, in part, because relevant vocabularies and methodologies remain minimally developed. This paper therefore establishes a conceptual approach, vocabulary and s…
The Nexus of Practices
The Boundaries of Interdisciplinary Fields
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of migration and mobilities research by temporalizing understandings of their boundaries – places where differences have been entrenched and some concepts have remained beyond negotiation or dialogue. While the creativity and boundary-crossing potential of interdisciplinary fields is often set in opposition to disciplines, which define and regulate appropriate concepts and knowledge, such cha…
Traces of a Mobile Field
Since the launch of this journal 10 years ago, the field of mobilities research has developed at a rapid pace. In this editorial introduction, we explore how this development has been curated, how the field has evolved and what maturation might mean for mobilities research. After reviewing how early editorials encouraged particular trajectories of development within mobilities research, we introduce the papers in this special issue, which build u…
Networks of home, travel and use during Hong Kong return migration
Taking everyday interactions with materials as of inherent interest, I examine how thinking topologically about multiple spaces helps to trace migrants' relationships to changing groups of objects. After introducing Mol and Law's concepts of regional, network and fluid space, I discuss three types of networks with diverse relations to them - networks of home, for travel, and of use. Though networks of home are important to migrants, and can remai…
The edge of change
This essay seeks to identify the locus and basic dimensions of change in social practices. I believe that changes in social practices are fundamental to changes in social life more broadly. This is because social phenomena are bundles of practices and material arrangements. The account presented here embraces (1) general propositions about human activities, practices, and practice-arrangement bundles and (2) an enumeration of key aspects and comp…
Moving with practices
When considering mobilities within social life, researchers have emphasized the importance of enactment and embodied practices. Yet such understandings of practice as praxis—human action in general—have often left the relationship between practices and mobilities vaguely characterized. This paper therefore engages with an understanding of practices as praktik—distinct patterns of social action made up of interconnected elements—in order to explor…
Things in motion, things in practices
While complex spatialities and mobilities underlie patterns of contemporary consumption, many of their dynamics remain unexplored. Authors have taken up Warde’s suggestion that consumption is a moment within social practices, yet the implications of multi-sited performances and travel for this consumption have not been fully considered. This article therefore focuses upon the objects within practices, adopting Appadurai’s strategy of following th…
Many homes for tourism
Tourism mobilities have long been spatialized as circular structures emanating from a primary home that is opposed to a space of `away'. Increasingly complex personal mobilities and experiences with multiple homes, however, challenge the assumptions on which this spatialization of tourism rests. This article utilizes an analysis of travel memoir narratives of return home and second home mobilities to deconstruct the oppositions within traditional…
The Boundaries of Interdisciplinary Fields
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of migration and mobilities research by temporalizing understandings of their boundaries – places where differences have been entrenched and some concepts have remained beyond negotiation or dialogue. While the creativity and boundary-crossing potential of interdisciplinary fields is often set in opposition to disciplines, which define and regulate appropriate concepts and knowledge, such cha…
Things in motion, things in practices
While complex spatialities and mobilities underlie patterns of contemporary consumption, many of their dynamics remain unexplored. Authors have taken up Warde’s suggestion that consumption is a moment within social practices, yet the implications of multi-sited performances and travel for this consumption have not been fully considered. This article therefore focuses upon the objects within practices, adopting Appadurai’s strategy of following th…
Moving with practices
When considering mobilities within social life, researchers have emphasized the importance of enactment and embodied practices. Yet such understandings of practice as praxis—human action in general—have often left the relationship between practices and mobilities vaguely characterized. This paper therefore engages with an understanding of practices as praktik—distinct patterns of social action made up of interconnected elements—in order to explor…
Traces of a Mobile Field
Since the launch of this journal 10 years ago, the field of mobilities research has developed at a rapid pace. In this editorial introduction, we explore how this development has been curated, how the field has evolved and what maturation might mean for mobilities research. After reviewing how early editorials encouraged particular trajectories of development within mobilities research, we introduce the papers in this special issue, which build u…
Concepts and methodologies for a new relational geography of energy demand
Understandings of space as not an objective surface or container but rather a set of relations that are continually made and re-made have become well established within the social sciences, yet they remain noticeably absent in how energy demand research is understood and undertaken. This is, in part, because relevant vocabularies and methodologies remain minimally developed. This paper therefore establishes a conceptual approach, vocabulary and s…
Many homes for tourism
Tourism mobilities have long been spatialized as circular structures emanating from a primary home that is opposed to a space of `away'. Increasingly complex personal mobilities and experiences with multiple homes, however, challenge the assumptions on which this spatialization of tourism rests. This article utilizes an analysis of travel memoir narratives of return home and second home mobilities to deconstruct the oppositions within traditional…
Networks of home, travel and use during Hong Kong return migration
Taking everyday interactions with materials as of inherent interest, I examine how thinking topologically about multiple spaces helps to trace migrants' relationships to changing groups of objects. After introducing Mol and Law's concepts of regional, network and fluid space, I discuss three types of networks with diverse relations to them - networks of home, for travel, and of use. Though networks of home are important to migrants, and can remai…
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices
Whilst work on decolonising methodologies has persisted for more than 20 years, engagement remains uneven. Despite rich discussions of indigenous methodologies and decolonial thinking, the challenge of 'methodological stasis' remains, as Western knowledges, research practices and methods continue to dominate. This article argues for new critiques and concepts to further decolonial efforts. It first situates a discussion of methodological stasis i…
Understanding the positioning of “the electric vehicle consumer”
The discursive category of “the consumer” has multiple characterizations, connected to varied accounts of social action, relations and change. This paper is interested in the implications of these varied characterizations for understanding the interdisciplinary knowledge about mobility systems being marshalled in the pursuit of social change. It focuses upon the case of electric vehicles (EVs), examining the varied representations of consumers in…
Many homes for tourism
Tourism mobilities have long been spatialized as circular structures emanating from a primary home that is opposed to a space of `away'. Increasingly complex personal mobilities and experiences with multiple homes, however, challenge the assumptions on which this spatialization of tourism rests. This article utilizes an analysis of travel memoir narratives of return home and second home mobilities to deconstruct the oppositions within traditional…
Things in motion, things in practices
While complex spatialities and mobilities underlie patterns of contemporary consumption, many of their dynamics remain unexplored. Authors have taken up Warde’s suggestion that consumption is a moment within social practices, yet the implications of multi-sited performances and travel for this consumption have not been fully considered. This article therefore focuses upon the objects within practices, adopting Appadurai’s strategy of following th…
The edge of change
This essay seeks to identify the locus and basic dimensions of change in social practices. I believe that changes in social practices are fundamental to changes in social life more broadly. This is because social phenomena are bundles of practices and material arrangements. The account presented here embraces (1) general propositions about human activities, practices, and practice-arrangement bundles and (2) an enumeration of key aspects and comp…
Moving with practices
When considering mobilities within social life, researchers have emphasized the importance of enactment and embodied practices. Yet such understandings of practice as praxis—human action in general—have often left the relationship between practices and mobilities vaguely characterized. This paper therefore engages with an understanding of practices as praktik—distinct patterns of social action made up of interconnected elements—in order to explor…
Networks of home, travel and use during Hong Kong return migration
Taking everyday interactions with materials as of inherent interest, I examine how thinking topologically about multiple spaces helps to trace migrants' relationships to changing groups of objects. After introducing Mol and Law's concepts of regional, network and fluid space, I discuss three types of networks with diverse relations to them - networks of home, for travel, and of use. Though networks of home are important to migrants, and can remai…
The Nexus of Practices
The Boundaries of Interdisciplinary Fields
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of migration and mobilities research by temporalizing understandings of their boundaries – places where differences have been entrenched and some concepts have remained beyond negotiation or dialogue. While the creativity and boundary-crossing potential of interdisciplinary fields is often set in opposition to disciplines, which define and regulate appropriate concepts and knowledge, such cha…
Traces of a Mobile Field
Since the launch of this journal 10 years ago, the field of mobilities research has developed at a rapid pace. In this editorial introduction, we explore how this development has been curated, how the field has evolved and what maturation might mean for mobilities research. After reviewing how early editorials encouraged particular trajectories of development within mobilities research, we introduce the papers in this special issue, which build u…
Understanding the positioning of “the electric vehicle consumer”
The discursive category of “the consumer” has multiple characterizations, connected to varied accounts of social action, relations and change. This paper is interested in the implications of these varied characterizations for understanding the interdisciplinary knowledge about mobility systems being marshalled in the pursuit of social change. It focuses upon the case of electric vehicles (EVs), examining the varied representations of consumers in…
Concepts and methodologies for a new relational geography of energy demand
Understandings of space as not an objective surface or container but rather a set of relations that are continually made and re-made have become well established within the social sciences, yet they remain noticeably absent in how energy demand research is understood and undertaken. This is, in part, because relevant vocabularies and methodologies remain minimally developed. This paper therefore establishes a conceptual approach, vocabulary and s…
Demanding Energy
Steering the future of travel demand
With governments around the world committed to radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and transport-related mobilities making up a significant proportion of current carbon emissions, questions of how to change mobility systems have become a pressing concern. Yet the urgency of this challenge cannot be met with more of the same – particularly in terms of narrow discussions of behaviour change that fail to draw upon the wealth of rele…
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices
Whilst work on decolonising methodologies has persisted for more than 20 years, engagement remains uneven. Despite rich discussions of indigenous methodologies and decolonial thinking, the challenge of 'methodological stasis' remains, as Western knowledges, research practices and methods continue to dominate. This article argues for new critiques and concepts to further decolonial efforts. It first situates a discussion of methodological stasis i…
Sociology (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Mobilities (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)