Being-in-motion: the everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute. Issue 3 (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Holton, Mark; Finn, Kirsty
• Is Part Of: Mobilities. Volume 13:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 426
• Page End: 440
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: Mobility -- local students -- commuting -- gender -- identity -- class; Transportation -- Periodicals; 300.5
• DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-0101

Abstract

Abstract: This article makes the case for a more robust mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, in order to problematise the enduring binary of [im]mobility ('going away' vs. 'staying local') and to challenge the presumed linearity of educational (and mobility) transitions in higher education. Through a discussion of two UK-based studies, we make the case for considering the complex and multi-layered everyday mobilities of students who commute to illuminate a broader range of mobility practices that shape students' experiences and identities, and which are embedded in multiple and intersecting embodiments of class, gender, age and ethnicity.