Abstract
AbstractThis article examines how people narrate the relationship between physical and socioeconomic mobility in contemporary urbanChina. To do so, it looks at the mobility of two different groups of drivers in the southwesternChinese city ofKunming: taxi drivers and “day trippers.” While a taxi driver and a day tripper engage in the same activity of driving their own vehicles, their experiences of mobility, their status identity and their views of the country and the city diverge due to their differently embodied practices in time as well as in space. The comparison underscores that there is nothing inherent in the relationship between mobility, status and freedom.
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