Improvising and Navigating Mobilities: Tacking in Everyday Life

Amit, Vered and Knowles, Caroline. 2017. Improvising and Navigating Mobilities: Tacking in Everyday Life. Theory Culture & Society, 34(7-8), pp. 165-179. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

This paper aims to deepen and extend theoretical understanding of mobility by exploring some of the mechanisms by which it operates. It introduces the concept and practices of ‘tacking’ as a as a frame for examining the creative processes of navigation and improvisation through which people approach and reflect on the irregularities and uncertainties of their everyday rounds, enacted or otherwise narrated as spatial biography; lives conceived in mobile-spatial terms. ‘Tacking’ also travels beyond this frame of reference, i.e. it is ‘good to think with’ across different substantive contexts of social interaction. Tacking suggests ongoing adjustment and modification that respond to shifting circumstances and may create new facts on the ground, which elicit further adjustments.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417724876

Keywords:

Mobility, improvisation, navigation, spatial-biography

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
5 May 2017Accepted
24 August 2017Published Online
1 December 2017Published

Item ID:

20608

Date Deposited:

04 Jul 2017 15:04

Last Modified:

09 Jun 2021 17:57

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20608

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