Animating Suspension: Waiting for Mobilities

This paper explores the corporeal experience of the event of waiting during the process of journeying. Rather than focusing on differential speed as central to charting the contingent relationality between mobilities and immobilities as has been the dominant mode of reasoning in mobility studies, the author argues for a renewed focus on the body, specifically through the relationality between activity and inactivity. In this way, the event of waiting is no longer conceptualized as a dead period of stasis or stilling, or even a slower urban rhythm, but is instead alive with the potential of being other than this. Through an appreciation of the dynamic nature of temporality, this essay charts a journey through the relative inactivities embodied through waiting and concludes that waiting as an event should be conceptualized not solely as an active achievement or passive acquiescence but as a variegated affective complex where experience folds through and emerges from a multitude of different planes.

• Record URL:
  http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/17450100701381581
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/17450101
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis
• Authors:
  • Bissell, David
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 277-298
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Human factors; Mobility; Perception; Time duration; Travel; Travel behavior; Travel time; Waiting time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055308
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 2007 1:00PM