关键词: 新流动范式, 非流动性, 流动性, 静止性, 稳定性

Abstract:

The interruption and immobility under the Covid-19 are changing the narrative logic of the new mobility paradigm. Mobility as a basic principle of modern society has been challenged and questioned, and a correct understanding of immobility is related to the future shift and change of the new mobility paradigm. To this end, this study summarizes the static research under the new mobility paradigm, considers the dialectical relationship between liquidity and static, and provides a new path for the transformation of the new mobility paradigm. We found that the study of immobility under the new mobility paradigm has four important turns. Firstly, there has been a shift from criticism of immobility to the understanding of the relationship of immobility. Geographers formed the thought of dialectical relationship (e.g., infrastructure and power geometries) between mobility and immobility based on criticizing the theory of sedentarism metaphysics. Secondly, previous research has opened space for an ontology and epistemology of immobility in and of itself. Traditional mobility research has viewed immobility as passive, othered, and utilized objects, while recent research has endowed immobility with activity, selfness, and subjectivity. Thirdly, much research has clearly shifted in favor of the microscopic interpretation (e.g., daily life) not just macroscopic view (e.g., locals and cosmopolitans). Fourthly, methodology has transformed from the duality of methods to the balance of methods. At the same time, there are four important issues in the study of immobility: (1) the antecedences of immobile regular population including factors that retain, repel, and adjust internal constraints; (2) the significant impact of anchoring space on mobility, such as supporting role; (3) the embodied experiences of non-representational silent body, such as the practices and emotions; (4) the node subject across time and space which has proved the immobile mobility. Overall, the research of immobility under the new flow paradigm has become a topic full of postmodernism and posthumanism color. Finally, we propose relevant prospects for the future research of immobility: to focus on the population heterogeneity of immobility, to pay attention to diversified immobility spaces, to understand post-human technology and immobility bodies, and to explore the mobility of sustainable development. This research has crucial value and significance for the new flow paradigm to enter a new historical development stage.

Key words: the new flow paradigm, immobility, mobility, stillness, stability