Jie LI, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Honggang XU, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Mobile work and its resultant multilocal dwelling has become a mass phenomenon globally. This study examines how job-induced residential multilocality influences mobile workers’ wellbeing from a geographical perspective, by investigating the generation, distribution, and mobilisation of wellbeing resources in the space-networks of mobility and mooring, based on a conceptual framework developed from spaces of wellbeing framework, enabling place thesis, and the new mobility paradigm. With a qualitative study of mobile workers in China’s Greater Bay Area, we argue that wellbeing resources are actively created and mobilized through interactions with place and space, not only ‘emplaced’, generated in situ, but can be sought remotely, with the relationality of place and mobility as central mechanisms. This study contributes to the relational thinking of place and wellbeing and enriches the understanding of wellbeing generation and mobilisation mechanisms in a mobile work and multilocal dwelling context.
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