![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this presentation I will try to unravel the recent discussion on mobility, in which social relations necessitate intermittent and intersecting movements that create a multilayered spatiality despite distances. According to the new mobilities paradigm we should give more attention to the mobility of people, objects, information and ideas than to the more sedentarist phenomena. The globalising world is based on movement and the mechanisms that facilitate it. It is suggested that further interrogations on how particular transport practices and configurations become salient in the world are needed. Despite the city-state’s widely-acclaimed aviation success, this paper demonstrates how it remains subject to the geopolitical actions of more dominant players, residing interstitially between being at the vanguard, and at the peripheries of global air traffic. Using Singapore as a candidate and foil to reflect on this issue, this paper interrogates how three ‘international’ legislative frameworks-air traffic rights, air navigation rules, and climate change initiatives-have variously limited the city-state’s potential to ‘move’ at different stages of its flying career. In particular, it examines how air transport is not only experienced inequitably among different social groups, but is also an activity whose access and opportunities are geographically distributed in uneven ways. This article joins recent calls for greater attention to be paid to the politics of mobility. ![]()
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