Motility and viscosity: Spatial practices of road travel on Sichuan-Tibet Highway
Received date: 2022-11-07
Accepted date: 2023-02-24
Online published: 2023-08-08
Road travel, represented by Sichuan-Tibet Highway trip, has become a popular non-institutionalized and post-modern travel method. Road travel is very different from the general mass tourism because of its long-term and large-scale mobility practice, which poses a challenge to the traditional tourism research that focuses more on tourism destination. Taking Sichuan-Tibet Highway as a case, this study adopted the method of mobile ethnography and integrated the framework of “motility-viscosity” based on the perspective of mobility theory to explore the spatial practices and formation mechanism of road travel on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. The study found that, on the one hand, the mobility practices of Sichuan-Tibet Highway road travel are the result of travelers' coordination of the key elements of their motility, including “access”, “competence” and “appropriation”. In this process, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway not only assumes the function of a channel, but also influences the mobility practices and experience of travelers by multiple materialities. Road travel mobilities are comprehensive skill practices involving multiple mobility technologies such as automobiles, bicycles and so on, which not only enable the traveler's body to move through space, but also shape the rhythm of movement and the way how specific places and landscapes are perceived and experienced. In addition, for long-term travel in large-scale spaces, travelers' planning and mobility willingness are crucial to determine whether the travel can be completed. On the other hand, the mooring practices are mainly affected by the “obstacle viscosity”, “landscape viscosity” and “relationship viscosity” of the road, and present a variety of forms and practical significance. This expands our understanding of the moorings during travel. Moorings are not necessarily negative. The alternating cycle of “mobility, mooring and re-mobility” constitutes the common structure of road travel pattern, but it also shows complexity and variability. The interaction between a traveler's mobility dynamics and road viscosity provides an explanation for the occurrence mechanism of the traveler's spatial practices-road viscosity respectively acts on different and key factors of motility, thus shaping the diverse purposes and representation of mobility/mooring practices and their mutual transformation. This study innovatively integrated the analysis framework of “motility-viscosity”, expanding the concept connotation of “viscosity” and trying to build the interactive relationship between the two, which is a breakthrough attempt comparing to the use of a single concept in analyzing mobility practice in the past. The study revealed the interactive relationship between road space and travelers and its significance to the tourism mobility practices. It reflected on the understanding of travel channels and journey in tourism research from a dynamic perspective.
Key words: road travel; mobility practices; motility; viscosity; Sichuan-Tibet Highway
WANG Xueji , YUE Dingyi , SUN Jiuxia . Motility and viscosity: Spatial practices of road travel on Sichuan-Tibet Highway[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2023 , 42(8) : 2211 -2224 . DOI: 10.11821/dlyj020221299
表1 被访者信息Tab. 1 Demographic characteristics of interviewees |
| 编号 | 年龄 | 性别 | 旅行方式 | 行程/ 田野点 | 编号 | 年龄 | 性别 | 旅行方式 | 行程/田野点 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZC | 27 | 男 | 摩托车旅行 | 成都-理塘 | XE | 28 | 男 | 摩托车旅行 | 理塘 |
| XJ | 25 | 男 | 摩托车旅行 | 雅安-理塘 | YJ | 26 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 拉萨 |
| JL | 22 | 男 | 摩托车旅行 | 理塘-鲁朗 | HQ | 26 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 拉萨 |
| JE | 20 | 女 | 徒搭旅行 | 鲁朗-拉萨 | HD | 18 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 拉萨 |
| CE | 22 | 男 | 徒搭旅行 | 鲁朗-拉萨 | WX | 26 | 女 | 自行车旅行 | 拉萨 |
| JW | 25 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 成都 | GB | 30 | 女 | 摩托车旅行 | 拉萨 |
| AJ | 24 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 成都 | YX | 26 | 男 | 徒步旅行 | 拉萨 |
| MM | 28 | 女 | 徒搭旅行 | 成都 | YF | 27 | 女 | 徒步旅行 | 拉萨 |
| LX | 22 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 理塘 | LL | 23 | 男 | 徒步旅行 | 拉萨 |
| DC | 23 | 男 | 自行车旅行 | 理塘 | YY | 37 | 女 | 徒搭旅行 | 拉萨 |
| JK | 28 | 男 | 徒搭旅行 | 理塘 | CK | 24 | 男 | 自驾旅行 | 拉萨 |
| ZF | 23 | 女 | 徒搭旅行 | 理塘 | YQ | 22 | 女 | 自驾旅行 | 拉萨 |
| FG | 30 | 男 | 自驾旅行 | 理塘 |
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