Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a plan…
Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a plan…
Imagining mobility -- Chile : traveling to and from the end of the world -- Indonesia : Merantau and modernity -- Tanzania : the Maasai as icons of mobility -- Enacting mobility -- Education : leaving to learn -- Labor : capitalizing on movement -- Life's "pilgrimage" : travel, …
Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these m…
"Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these …
French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's ideas, addresses the str…
"French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's ideas, addresses the st…
Keywords of mobility: critical engagements
by Salazar, Noel B., Jayaram, Kiran
fromWorlds in motion
Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but, as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams' 'Keywords', this edited volume presents contributions that criti…