P.F. Peters

Co‐ordinating Passages: Understanding the Resources Needed for Everyday Mobility

Abstract This article contributes to the ‘mobilities turn’ in social science by proposing new concepts and methods for analysing the ways in which people draw upon a range of resources to manage everyday mobility. We distinguish between the ‘projects’ people want to achieve and the ‘passages’ they need to go through in order to do so. We also distinguish between ‘pre‐travelling’ and ‘re‐ordering’. The analysis builds on insights from time‐geography, mobility studies and actor‐network‐theory to develop a conceptual vocabulary for understanding the dynamic and situated nature of travel in everyday life. The study combines qualitative and quantitative data from a study of hypermobile people in the Netherlands.

A sounding monument: how a new organ became old

Abstract In 2012, a new pipe organ was unveiled in Amsterdam. This organ, the Van Straten organ, was designed and built as a replica of an organ originally built in 1479 by Peter Gerritsz. In this paper, we examine how the Gerritsz organ became the Van Straten organ by examining how contemporary organ builders were able to translate aspects of the original wind chest, pipes and keyboard into the new organ. By contextualising the meaning of the Van Straten organ within the Early Music movement and the desire for historically authentic instruments, we argue that the Van Straten organ is not simply a replica of a fifteenth-century organ, but rather an object through which knowledge about fifteenth-century musical culture is produced for twenty-first-century musicians, composers, researchers and listeners.