Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of
people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce
systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world,
including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali,
Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian
landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and
innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over
our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics
of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings' embodied
engagements with their built world and provides diverse
perspectives on the ideological and political underpinnings of
landscapes of mobility. In order to describe landscapes of mobility
as a historically, socially, and politically constructed condition,
the book is divided into three sections-objects, contacts, and
flows. The first section looks at elements that constitute such
landscapes, including mobile bodies, buildings, and practices
across multiple geographical scales. As these variable landscapes
are reconstituted under particular social, economic, ecological,
and political conditions, the second section turns to the
particular practices that catalyze embodied relations within and
across such spaces. Finally, the last section explores how the
flows of objects, bodies, interactions, and ecologies are
represented, presenting a critical comparison of the means by which
relations, processes, and exchanges are captured, depicted,
reproduced and re-embodied.
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