ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how mobility studies has undergone its own internal critique in order to fully represent perspectives on and from mobilities research from outside of the Global North and so as to expose and avoid privileging of Westernized understandings of mobility. It takes note of the increasingly diverse ways that mobilities research appears to be funded and coordinated inside and outside of realms of academic research, to extent that 'mobility' has transformed into the currency of a set of policy and practitioner debates. Judy Wajcman explores the gendering of patterns of mobility in public transport, while Georgine Clarsen and Peter Merriman have examined early female motorists in Australia and Britain of whom Virginia Woolf was one, as discussed below in. Mark Salter has pointed out that understandings of mobility from IR have thus contrasted with those of mobility studies. The attention of mobility studies to the context, practice and experience of mobility would chime with this agenda.
