Linked (im)mobilities and the relational politics of movement in post-earthquake Nepal

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12145166
AutoresBenjamin Linder (0000-0002-7224-0084, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas222-249
Data de publicação2017-02-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0887-3631 • E-ISSN: 1940-6320
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08873631.2017.1283559
OpenAlexW2604864613
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas44

This article highlights the importance of various (im)mobilities that were induced by the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. It analyzes over 120 news articles published in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, arranging these into a mobility-centric narrative that highlights the politics of movement in the disaster’s wake. Drawing on the theoretical and methodological “mobilities turn”, I introduce the concept of linked (im)mobilities to demonstrate the complex dialectics structuring (im)mobilities after the disaster. More specifically, Nepal’s post-earthquake (im)mobilities intersected with one another and with a variety of geographic and political factors to produce a mutually constitutive web of contingent movements. Attending to these not only underscores the centrality of (im)mobilities themselves. By raising questions of scale, inequality, bordering, and “islanding”, the approach advanced here widens our analytical frame. It offers a conceptual architecture capable of encompassing more factors (beyond mobility), thereby facilitating a broader understanding of the disaster event and its various outcomes

Dialectic · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Mobilities · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Law