TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobilities I: Departures
AU - Merriman, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
One example of such a collaboration is between the film-maker Patrick Keiller, geographer Doreen Massey and historian Patrick Wright, which emerged from the ‘Landscape and Environment’ programme funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. As part of the project titled ‘The future of landscape and the moving image’, Keiller wrote and filmed Robinson in Ruins (British Film Institute, 2010) – the third of his ‘Robinson’ films after London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997) – as well as curating an installation for Tate Britain, and most recently compiling his essays on film, architecture, place and landscape into a book titled The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes ( Keiller, 2013 ). Keiller’s films have long appealed to cultural and urban geographers, whether for his on-screen references to Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, the filmic echoes of situationist approaches and methods, or his depictions of and reflections on the contemporary British landscape. What The View from the Train does is to refract the development of Keiller’s approach to ‘films as some kind of spatial research’ and of ‘exploratory film-making as a method of research’ over the past 35 years ( Keiller, 2013 : 6), while movement and mobility are central themes of his work – whether in the circulations of global commodities and capital, slow movements of natural forms in rural landscapes, or stories of the journeys of his fictional researcher Robinson.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2015/2/13
Y1 - 2015/2/13
N2 - This first report identifies key trends in mobilities research during late 2012 and 2013. Using the 150th anniversary of the London Underground as its launching point, the article explores a number of academic engagements with its history, as well as identifying the lack of research on underground or underwater mobilities. It then examines recent work which might be considered to provide creative or experimental engagements with and meditations on movement, including urban exploration, poetry, art and film. The final section examines recent work on mobility, politics, exclusion, marginalization and privilege, including work on forced, elite and family mobilities
AB - This first report identifies key trends in mobilities research during late 2012 and 2013. Using the 150th anniversary of the London Underground as its launching point, the article explores a number of academic engagements with its history, as well as identifying the lack of research on underground or underwater mobilities. It then examines recent work which might be considered to provide creative or experimental engagements with and meditations on movement, including urban exploration, poetry, art and film. The final section examines recent work on mobility, politics, exclusion, marginalization and privilege, including work on forced, elite and family mobilities
KW - creativity
KW - exclusion
KW - mobility
KW - politics
KW - underground
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/44354
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922612712&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0309132514527030
DO - 10.1177/0309132514527030
M3 - Article
SN - 0309-1325
VL - 39
SP - 87
EP - 95
JO - Progress in Human Geography
JF - Progress in Human Geography
IS - 1
ER -