TY - JOUR

T1 - 'Walking-Out'

T2 - The Mobilities of Love

AU - Pearce, Lynne

N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities 2018, available online:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2018.1504667

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in the production and sustenance of intimate relationships and focus, in particular, on courtship practices and their modern-day equiva-lents. I pursue this discussion through close readings of literary and autobiographical texts from the nineteenth century through to the millennium, and by means of a framework that triangulates the work of Tim Ingold, David Seamon and Henri Bergson. My focus here is on how the mobilities we practice during the everyday routines of courtship - i.e., the paths we make, the routes we take, the roads we travel, the journeys we repeat, the transport we use - come to characterise the relationship concerned and impact upon its progress. Both Ingold’s work on “lines” and Seamon’s on “place-ballet” are conceptually suggestive in this regard and speak to recent work in mobilities/cultural ge-ography on the significance of patterns of movement in the praxis of relationships.

AB - In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in the production and sustenance of intimate relationships and focus, in particular, on courtship practices and their modern-day equiva-lents. I pursue this discussion through close readings of literary and autobiographical texts from the nineteenth century through to the millennium, and by means of a framework that triangulates the work of Tim Ingold, David Seamon and Henri Bergson. My focus here is on how the mobilities we practice during the everyday routines of courtship - i.e., the paths we make, the routes we take, the roads we travel, the journeys we repeat, the transport we use - come to characterise the relationship concerned and impact upon its progress. Both Ingold’s work on “lines” and Seamon’s on “place-ballet” are conceptually suggestive in this regard and speak to recent work in mobilities/cultural ge-ography on the significance of patterns of movement in the praxis of relationships.

KW - Mobilities

KW - love

KW - courtship

KW - romance

KW - relationships

KW - automobilities

KW - wayfaring

KW - place-ballet

KW - everyday life

KW - lifecourse

U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504667

DO - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504667

M3 - Journal article

VL - 13

SP - 777

EP - 790

JO - Mobilities

JF - Mobilities

SN - 1745-0101

IS - 6

ER -