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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 -