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Mobilities, Aesthetics and Ethics

par Pelgrims, Claire ;Lee, Jinhyoung
Référence Mobility humanities, 4, 1, page (1-8)
Publication Publié, 2025-01-31

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There is a growing interest in aesthetics in mobility studies, which would be associated with the growing involvement of the arts and humanities in mobility studies, as Merriman and Pearce noted earlier. Similarly, it is only recently that mobility studies have expanded to include the ethical or moral dimensions of mobility. This special issue is an outgrowth of the 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and the 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M). This introductory article therefore enquires into the aesthetics and ethics of mobility as inextricably connected. Specifically, it discusses how mobility researchers engage with “aestheticising mobility,” recognising mobility or movement as a formative element or device in art and creative practices, and “mobilising aesthetics,” aesthetic and ethical dimensions of bodily mobilities, such as running, bicycling, “still-dancing,” and escaping an emergency. Drawing on Scott, it reflects on how mobility studies is committed to exploring the “common good,” embodied in “domestic,” “industrial,” “civic,” “market,” and “ecological” mobilities. Finally, we hope that this special issue will be a catalyst for raising new questions or agendas that will encourage further research from the aesthetic-ethical nexus for a future of mobility justice (Sheller).