Theorising "Detour" Mobilities
Résumé
While detours permeate people's daily lives, scholars have rarely focused their attention on the potential of detours to inform new meanings and space-time relationships in mobilities. This special issue probes the logics, sensibilities and experiences that detouring entails as a social and cultural endeavour. In this introduction, we acknowledge the concept's frequent association with inconvenience and frustration, and touch on its more fruitful or subversive compositions, epitomised by the notion of dérive and other humanities concerns. We then chart a range of emergent and promising uses of detours in the fields of migration, pedestrianism, the arts and literary studies. Finally, we highlight three theoretical impetuses at stake in following these elongated paths. The collection of papers forming this special issue questions the generativeness of such circuitous motion, beyond its productivist framing. They focus on the intentionality, tactics, and aesthetics of the people performing them, while paying attention to the entanglements of (non)human agencies engaged in these topologies of space-time.
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