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 on 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
lies in capturing the deployment of alternative spatialities and
underlining 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 connected to be
rehabilitated, beyond distance, in our practical knowledge of
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.
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