“‘Creative adventure’ has always been one of the defining tropes of mobility and travel. Such positive valuations of long-distance mobilities have always sat alongside the trope of mobility as transgression and pathology. Travel and the journey, after all, are right at the center of the stories we tell ourselves. […] There is a danger that COVID-19 and reactions to it will pathologize mobility in general and ignore the various kinds of joy and opportunity that arise from the ways we move”.
Tim Cresswell is professor in University of Edinburgh in the School of GeoSciences. His research considers the role of geographical ways of thinking in the constitution of social and cultural life. By ‘geographical thinking’ he means modes of thought and imagination that utilise notions of place, space, and mobility to give the world ideological value. He is interested in how these modes of thought inform various kinds of practice from the practice of ordering and domination to the practice of disorder and resistance.
Relevant videos