Rights statement: This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Social & Cultural Geography: Hui, A (2013) Moving with practices: the discontinuous, rhythmic and material mobilities of leisure, Social & Cultural Geography 14(8): 888-908 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14649365.2013.827736.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving with practices
T2 - the discontinuous, rhythmic and material mobilities of leisure
AU - Hui, Allison
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - When considering mobilities within social life, researchers have emphasized the importance of enactment and embodied practices. Yet such understandings of practice as praxis—human action in general—have often left the relationship between practices and mobilities vaguely characterized. This paper therefore engages with an understanding of practices as praktik—distinct patterns of social action made up of interconnected elements—in order to explore how people move not only with cars and trains but also with practices. Praktik provides a context for studying the multiple mobilities of people, objects and ideas, highlighting important dynamics of performance and units of study. Leisure subcultures, the empirical focus of the paper, are important social practices and yet limited attention has been given to how they rely upon and are constituted by mobilities. Drawing upon a qualitative study of patchwork quilting and bird watching, the paper demonstrates that enacting leisure is inextricable from enacting discontinuous mobilities. Enthusiasts' goals lead to common experiences of travelling-in-anticipation and travelling-in-disappointment, while the systematic circulation of objects, such as bird lists and bird books, shape travel even when they are not moving alongside participants. In this way, leisure practices unfold through temporally marked patterns of mobility.
AB - When considering mobilities within social life, researchers have emphasized the importance of enactment and embodied practices. Yet such understandings of practice as praxis—human action in general—have often left the relationship between practices and mobilities vaguely characterized. This paper therefore engages with an understanding of practices as praktik—distinct patterns of social action made up of interconnected elements—in order to explore how people move not only with cars and trains but also with practices. Praktik provides a context for studying the multiple mobilities of people, objects and ideas, highlighting important dynamics of performance and units of study. Leisure subcultures, the empirical focus of the paper, are important social practices and yet limited attention has been given to how they rely upon and are constituted by mobilities. Drawing upon a qualitative study of patchwork quilting and bird watching, the paper demonstrates that enacting leisure is inextricable from enacting discontinuous mobilities. Enthusiasts' goals lead to common experiences of travelling-in-anticipation and travelling-in-disappointment, while the systematic circulation of objects, such as bird lists and bird books, shape travel even when they are not moving alongside participants. In this way, leisure practices unfold through temporally marked patterns of mobility.
KW - mobilities
KW - practices
KW - leisure
KW - materiality
KW - travel experiences
KW - temporality
U2 - 10.1080/14649365.2013.827736
DO - 10.1080/14649365.2013.827736
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 888
EP - 908
JO - Social and Cultural Geography
JF - Social and Cultural Geography
SN - 1464-9365
IS - 8
ER -