Making space on the run: exercising the right to move in Jerusalem. Issue 6 (2nd November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McGahern, Una
• Is Part Of: Mobilities. Volume 14:Issue 6(2019)
• Page Start: 890
• Page End: 905
• Publication Date: 2019-11-02
• Subjects: Mobility -- running -- borders -- right to movement -- right to the city -- Palestinians in Jerusalem; Transportation -- Periodicals; 300.5
• DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1626082
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-0101

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the politics of running in the fragmented city of Jerusalem. Through a series of 'run-alongs' – an innovative method of talking while running – with members of the city's first Palestinian running group, it reveals the mobile, multi-sited and multi-modal practices they use to transgress borders and reclaim spaces for themselves to live within it. Situating an analysis of their running practices within a discussion of the right to the city, it draws attention to social running as a form of collective action and an ongoing exercise of their right to move in the city.