IDEAS IN MOTION Walking as a Metaphor COVID Pandemic and the Politics of Mobility
Transfers-Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
; 10(2-3):103-109, 2020.
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in English
| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1291543
ABSTRACT
This article reflects on the dissenting act of mobility as articulated by migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are walking back home, hundreds of miles away, in lieu of public transport. Their mobility-precisely, the act of walking-has thus acquired a metaphoric status, and laid bare the ideological practices of territorializing the city-space. This article argues that the migrant worker's mobility, from within the axiomatic of the prevalent "mobility regime," can be read as a powerful metaphor of our tensions within the global political-economic order that the pandemic has so starkly exposed. The article provokes less literal, but more literary, understandings of mobilities in general, in order to come to grips with the manifold contradictions, paradoxes, and counteractions in the way the world moves.
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English
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Transfers-Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Year:
2020
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