capital of France and of the Ile-de-France region, it is however important not to neglect its very function, which is quite simply to ensure the circulation of goods and people and in this to ensure a form of democratization of the city. By fulfilling its
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The Transfers/T2M Duo and the Evolution of the Reflection on Mobilities
The Textbook Case of the Historical Representations of the Paris Beltway
Mathieu Flonneau
Michael K. Bess, David Lipset, Kudzai Matereke, Stève Bernardin, Katharine Bartsch, Harry Oosterhuis, Samuel Müller, Frank Schipper, Benjamin D’Harlingue, and Katherine Roeder
Hungary (415). Valérie Lathion illustrates another viewpoint when she questions the consensus around mobility and leisure for all to emphasize some violent reactions of Protestant groups to the democratization of transport in Switzerland (435). In sum
Undoing Traceable Beginnings
Citizenship and Belonging among Former Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Patricia Daley, Ng’wanza Kamata, and Leiyo Singo
national identity with the adoption of the nation-state model on independence ( Aminzade 2013 ; Heilman 1998 ; Hunter 2015 ; Nagar 1997 ); and the politics of mobility in the context of economic liberalization and democratization ( Dorman et al. 2007
Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants
From Dubs to Doubt
Rachel Rosen and Sarah Crafter
than local, textual rather than visual, and traditional rather than social media. There are, for example, suggestions that traditional media influence is waning with the “death” of the print media alongside a democratization through social media
Jeremy F. Walton and Piro Rexhepi
, Piro . 2013 . “ Democratization and Institutional Development under International Administration: The Institutionalization of the Kosovo Assembly .” PhD diss., University of Strathclyde . Rexhepi , Piro . 2015 . “ Mainstreaming Islamophobia: The
Motorcycling in 1980s Athens
Popularization, Representational Politics, and Social Identities
Panagiotis Zestanakis
as speed and flexibility became available to broader groups of consumers. Daily mobility was facilitated and the experience of free time became further democratized. In effect, media and parental anxieties about motorcycling expressed concerns about
Worldly Tastes
Mobility and the Geographical Imaginaries of Interwar Australian Magazines
Victoria Kuttainen and Susann Liebich
By the mid-1930s, Australians were enamored with travel and mobility, and took part in a bourgeoning culture of tourism and organized travel. 1 While the development of rail networks and the democratization of car travel stimulated new forms
Moving Onward?
Secondary Movers on the Fringes of Refugee Mobility in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Jolien Tegenbos and Karen Büscher
: Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 29 John Urry, Mobilities (Cambridge: Polity, 2007), 17 30 Oliver Bakewell, “Research beyond the Categories: The Importance of Policy Irrelevant Research into Forced
(Dis)Connected Rail
Infrastructural Suspension and Phatic Politics in Romania
Adrian Deoancă
same time, government control also democratized rail mobility: “one of the most important means of showing the regime's strength and empathy towards ordinary people.” 25 Communists deemed rail mobility a universal right: fares were subsidized
Holly Thorpe
, and they have nothing to do except check their Facebook.” Arguably, the increasing access that Afghan youth have to new media technologies is an important step in the democratization of digital knowledge. However, the flow of images and ideas between