To Make Move and Let Stop: Mobility and the Assemblage of Circulation

ABSTRACT The ‘mobilities turn’ in human geography and cognate disciplines has a natural methodological predisposition towards privileging mobile subjects, or the structures, policies, or authorities that constrain them. The article sets out two additions to mobility studies’ theoretical toolbox: the idea of the assemblage and the foregrounding of circulation. The civil aviation sector demonstrates the utility of this frame.

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