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This paper addresses embodied geographies of power assisted devices (powered wheelchairs and motorised scooters) for disabled people in Australia to augment understandings of mobile disability politics. Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ‘lines’ is used to reimagine spatial thinking about mobile disability politics. Disability in this paper is understood as an emplaced, emergent, relational and embodied process that arises in the interaction between ideas, materials and bodies. A focus on th...

This paper urges a return to the original formations of Deleuze and Guattari scholarship, to enable issues of sustainability, materiality, and governance to be productively thought together. Assemblage thinking is used to reconsider how roads, machines, bodies, policies, and concepts of sustainability come together in a working arrangement and what might enable rearrangements. This is no easy task, in part because over time assemblage thinking has taken some unhelpful detours, and because policy...

This article focuses on what may be depleting people’s capacity to ride a bike in cities. ‘Capacity to cycle’ is here understood not as a behavioural trait or in terms of infrastructure provision, but, taking our lead from Deleuze and Guattari, as a desiring cycling-machine. We argue this offers a way to envisage depleting, or enhancing, capacities to cycle as a working socio-material arrangement that make, remake, and unmake cycling-bodies and spaces. The article draws upon mixed-qualitat...