“Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space” constitutes Chapter 3 of the volume The Mobile Individual: Everyday Life, Long-Term Temporalities, and Mobile Subjectivities. This chapter, authored by Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée — both members of the UMR Géographie-cités research unit—appears in a work edited by Thomas Buhler as part of the Encyclopédie Sciences series published by ISTE-Wiley. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of the individual experience of mobility.
In this chapter, the authors note that a significant strand of geography relies on analyzing data based on populations’ places of residence; consequently, the knowledge produced and the territorial comparisons drawn tend to concern residents. They critically examine this residential lens and explore alternative approaches aimed at dynamically characterizing territories based on the population present over the course of the day.
The Mobile Individual: Mobile Life, Longer-term Approaches and Subjectivities
“Being mobile is more than just traveling”. Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances.
However, as research on daily mobility advances, a better understanding of the social and symbolic significance of such practices emerges. All of this contributes to the fact that daily mobility is not just a means to an end but is often at the very heart of deeply ingrained lifestyles and habits.
With contributions from internationally recognized specialists, this book provides an overview of the different facets of the individual experience of mobility. Using a three-pronged approach, the book draws upon the experience of everyday time and long-term processes such as socialization to mobility, while also attempting to better understand what feeds mobile subjectivities, starting with the social representations of modes and habits that people develop throughout their lives.
Contents
Part 1. The Mobile Individual and Daily Time.
1. Mobility and Everyday Life, Vincent Kaufmann.
2. Time Experienced in Everyday Mobility: Perceptions, Uses and Values, Thomas Buhler.
3. Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space, Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée.
Part 2. Mobile Socializations, or the Effects of the Long Term.
4. Mobility Trajectories and Biographies: A Valuable Hybridization, Philippe Gerber.
5. Gendered Cycling Socializations of Future Mobile Adults, David Sayagh.
6. Cycling in the City: Situated Practices and Unequal Policies, Matthieu Adam.
Part 3. Mobile Subjectivities: Representations and Effects of Habits.
7. Modal Choice and Representations of Transport Modes, Florian Masse and Samuel Carpentier-Postel.
8. Not Just a Detail: Modal Habit as Central to Everyday Mobility, Julia-Pearl Aveline and Thomas Buhler.
9. Responsive Adaptations to Traffic Congestion: A Matter of Habit?, Thomas Buhler and Gaële Lesteven.
