Article Dans Une Revue Mobility Humanities Année : 2025

A detour against the highway: observing competing forms of justice into everyday mobility

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This paper investigates the notion of detours in everyday life—both as a form of resistance to a mega-highway project in south-eastern France and as a broader practice. Using qualitative methods such as interviews, participant observation and a participative workshop with residents of a planned-to-be-crossed municipality, this article shows how the practice of detour is mobilised both as part of a strategy of struggle and as part of everyday practices by residents to denounce the dysfunctions of the metropolisation process and its impacts on the region. Drawing on debates around mobility justice and methods adapted to the study of protests, we discuss the notion of detour as a way of inhabiting a place. This paper examines how detours can form part of a political reading of mobility in a context of metropolisation, illustrating how such detour practices are conceived as foundational to alternative ways of being and living. Finally, the paper aims to put into perspective the real capability of detouring in a constrained everyday context; this capability of detours may contribute to reshaping local social class relations, evaluated through the lens of mobility justice.

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hal-05176571 , version 1 (22-07-2025)

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Judicaëlle Dietrich, Yohan Sahraoui. A detour against the highway: observing competing forms of justice into everyday mobility. Mobility Humanities, 2025, 4 (2), pp.49-71. ⟨10.23090/MH.2025.07.4.2.004⟩. ⟨hal-05176571⟩
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