Diverse factors like globalization, geopolitical tensions and the transformation of lifestyles are strengthening the role of mobility as a structuring dimension of contemporary societies. Social science research has taken note of these changes, but few studies cross the different forms of mobility, ranging from commuting, to tourists and backpackers, and to seasonal workers or international migrants. The diversity of mobility situations studied in this book highlights the contribution of the reality of mobility in the daily construction of urban, regional and global spaces, as well as in the redefinition of socio-spatial concepts. By using an interdisciplinary relational approach, the book revisits certain concepts such as exclusion, heritage or distance, in order to understand spatialities beyond the oppositions of fixity/mobility, private/public, or here/elsewhere. The book sheds light on the capacities for resistance of mobile persons in Singapore, Dakar, Bangkok, Amman, Paris, New York or Mexico by studying the power relationships that are established in situations of mobility. By deciphering the values that characterize regimes of (im)mobility, the contributors stress the normative injunctions of public policies and social practices. The originality of the work is to capture the deployment of alternative spatialities and to underline how they are reshaped between sedentary and mobility regimes. It highlights the importance of fully associating mobility with its characteristics of ephemerality and fluidity, in our theorizations and understandings of spatialities. By taking a post-structuralist posture, the book makes it possible to establish a logic of 'and' to design a 'between' of things, and to reverse ontology. This allows the temporary and the connectedness, beyond distance, to be rehabilitated in our know-how about spatialities and territorialities. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars of geography, sociology, anthropology and urban studies with interests in mobility, migration and relational thought.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367902834
Author Nadine Cattan
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 156g