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Zittoun, Tania
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Zittoun, Tania
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tania.zittoun@unine.ch
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- PublicationRestriction temporaireWhat Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement(2024)
; ; ; ; ; Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility: continuum (fluid mobilities transform into more stable forms of migration and vice versa), enablement (migration requires mobility, and mobility can trigger migration), hierarchy (migration and mobility are political categories that legitimise hierarchies of movement) and opposition (migration and mobility are pitted against each other). These interplays reveal the normative underpinnings of different categories, which we argue are too often implicit and unacknowledged. - PublicationAccès librePlaces and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point(2023)
; ; ; This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobilities enables us to address some of the serious criticisms that have been raised against migration and mobility studies. We find that such an approach allows us to overcome ethno-national epistemologies, goes beyond migranticised research designs that takes ‘migrants’ for granted, and has the potential to conceptually ‘unbound’ place. Furthermore, we identify three transversal dynamics that play a crucial role for the ways in which mobilities become (unequally) emplaced, namely regimes of mobilities, temporalities, and imaginations. We propose that using place as an entry point to study human movements offers a framework for future research to explore the dynamic categories and experiences that emerge at the intersection between places and mobilities without falling back on well-rehearsed assumptions. - PublicationAccès libreImagining the future. A sociocultural psychological study of im/mobilities in and around SuðuroyL’imagination permet aux individus et aux sociétés de donner une forme au futur incertain et de guider leurs pratiques et discours dans le présent. Les modèles psychologiques socioculturels de l’imagination se concentrent sur des processus sémiotiques abstraits, mais les situent dans des initiatives matérielles et sociales tangibles. De plus, l’imagination se développe non seulement dans le temps, mais également à travers, entre et en relation avec les espaces, c’est-à-dire par le biais et en contact des im/mobilités. Dans cette dissertation, je poursuis les tentatives d’articulation d’une perspective d’im/mobilité avec l’étude de l’imagination en explorant comment cette dernière génère, transforme, et gouverne la première. Bien que les études sur la migration et l’im/mobilité aient identifié l’importance de l’avenir, elles l’ont principalement fait d’une manière statique et centrée sur la migration, ce qui incite à proposer un modèle dynamique. J’adopte une perspective psychologique socioculturelle qui suppose que le développement psychologique ne peut être dissocié du contexte social et culturel. Je présente une étude de cas axée sur l’île féroïenne de Suðuroy caractérisée par ce que je qualifie de emptying (vidage). Sur la base d’observations participantes, d’entretiens qualitatifs et d’une recherche documentaire approfondie, j’explore l’interaction entre l’imagination et l’im/mobilité à l’interface entre sociogenèse et ontogenèse. Tout d’abord, j’identifie plusieurs initiatives — conceptualisées comme des technologies de l’imagination — qui abordent la question du emptying. Ces initiatives engendrent la sédentarité et stimulent les mobilités, toutes deux devenues manifestes dans l’augmentation de la population et du tourisme depuis 2013 environ, mais avec des effets inégaux qui créent une synchronisation externe et une désynchronisation interne. Ensuite, je me concentre sur les villages de Vágur et Suðuroy dans lesquels le emptying est accentué par une transformation sociétale plus large. Je démontre comment les initiatives locales visent à synchroniser et à signaler un avenir prometteur. Puis, en utilisant la construction potentielle d’un tunnel sous-marin comme exemple, j’illustre comment les forces qui influencent l’imagination sont réfractées par les différentes expériences et positionnements individuels. Enfin, je suis les trajectoires d’im/mobilité des personnes, en argumentant que les enchevêtrements d’im/mobilité dépendent des imaginaires dynamiques du futur. Je conclus que les technologies de l’imagination ancrent cette étude dans des initiatives concrètes et montrent les différentes manières dont les relations entre les temporalités sont modifiées, et je propose que l’imagination soit une forme de gouvernementalité qui façonne les régimes d’im/mobilité. Abstract: The imagination enables individuals and societies to give form to the unknowable future and guide efforts in the present. Sociocultural psychological models of the imagination focus on abstract semiotic processes but situate them in tangible material and social initiatives. Moreover, just as imagination develops over time, so it does across, between, and in relation to spaces; that is, through and in contact with im/mobilities. I expand on attempts to introduce an im/mobility perspective to the study of the imagination by exploring how the latter is generative of, transformed in, and govern the former. While migration and im/mobility studies have identified the future’s importance, they have primarily done so in a migration-centric and static manner, which lends further impetus to proposing a dynamic model. I adopt a sociocultural psychological perspective that assumes psychological development cannot be dissociated from sociocultural context. I present a case study centred on the Faroese island of Suðuroy characterised by what I describe as emptying. Based on participant observations, qualitative interviews, and extensive desk research, I explore the interaction between imagination and im/mobility at the interface between sociogenesis and ontogenesis. First, I identify several initiatives—conceptualised as technologies of the imagination—that address the emptying. Such initiatives engender sedentariness and stimulate mobilities, both of which became manifest in population and tourism increases from approximately 2013, though with uneven effects that create external synchronisation but internal desynchronisation. Second, I focus on the villages of Vágur and Suðuroy, where the emptying is accentuated by the wider societal transformation. I demonstrate how localised initiatives aim to synchronise and signal a hopeful future. Third, using a sub-sea tunnel’s potential construction as an example, I illustrate how forces impinging on the imagination are refracted through people’s experiences and positions. Fourth, I follow people’s im/mobility trajectories, arguing that the entanglements of im/mobility depend on dynamic imaginings of the future. I conclude that technologies of the imagination ground the study in concrete initiatives and show the ways the relations between temporalities are altered, and I propose that imagination as a form of governmentality that shapes regimes of im/mobilities.
- PublicationAccès libreImagination and social movements(2020-2-29)
; ; Whether explicitly mentioned or not, imagination plays a key role in social movements. People’s dissatisfaction with what is, their imagining of how things once were better, or of how things may become, often supports social movements. Social movements can, in turn, bring about new imaginations for people. After defining the notion of imagination and social movements, drawing on recent research, we review the literature along three main axes: the role of temporality in the relation between social movements and imagination; the relation between collective identities, social movement and imagination; and the resources that support imagination and social movements. We conclude by highlighting further dimensions to analyse the dynamics of imagination, which may open new ways to analyse the trajectories of social movements. - PublicationAccès libreA sociocultural psychology of repeated mobility: dialogical challenges(2019)
; In this paper, we propose a sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse to examine the extreme case of families living in repeated international mobility. In this case, mobility is motivated by work, which leads to repeated relocation of housing and occupational arrangements across countries. Based on fieldwork, we highlight three challenges of repeated mobility and discuss their implications within sociocultural psychology., En este artículo proponemos una psicología sociocultural del curso de la vida para analizar el caso extremo de familias que viven en movilidad internacional repetida. En este caso, la movilidad está motivada por el trabajo, lo que da lugar a una relocalización reiterada de vivienda y acuerdos ocupacionales a través de distintos países. Basándonos en un trabajo de campo, destacamos tres desafíos que presenta la movilidad repetida y abordamos sus implicaciones en el campo de la psicología sociocultural. - PublicationAccès libreA Sociocultural Approach to Mobile Families: A Case Study(2019)
; ; Cangià, FlaviaThis paper proposes a sociocultural perspective of mobility, of which migration is only one case, with a focus on mobile families. Consistent with mobility studies, sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse proposes to study both the sociocultural conditions of mobility, and the perspective of mobile people. In addition, in this article, we consider interrelated lives in mobility. We discuss the specific case of one family documented as part of a larger research project on repeated geographical mobility, and highlight the specificities of the context, the experiences of each family member, and some of their overlapping spheres of experiences. We thus hope to document the life of such families, but also to provide theoretical directions for the psychological study of mobility. - PublicationAccès libreWork and geographical mobility: the case of the male accompanying spouses(Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, 2019)
; ; ; Bendassoli, Pedro F. - PublicationAccès libreFamily, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families(2018)
; ; Two dominant images of migrant professionals, also known as “expats”, have long been common, in the social sciences: on the one hand, they were described as super-mobile individuals, who easily move between places with no time frame in mind, with the openness to engage with diversity; on the other hand, more recent studies challenged the idea of “expat” cosmopolitanism, and investigated the boundaries constituted by these people in the course of their everyday life. The present paper brings to the fore the complexity of these individuals’ and their families’ experiences of international mobility from a combined socio-cultural psychological and sociological perspective. We draw on qualitative research conducted in Switzerland in order to reflect on the role of family in the way these people make sense of diversity across time and space, make and un-make symbolic boundaries between themselves and others, and understand their own and their familiars' transformation. - PublicationAccès libre
- PublicationAccès libreRelocation services for families in geographical itinerancy: beyond the “cultural problem”(Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2018)
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