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Regimes of Mobility - Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power (Hardcover)
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Regimes of Mobility - Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power (Hardcover)
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Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global
'flows' of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and
celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are
all seen through the same analytical lens. This book builds on, as
well as critiques, past and present studies of mobility. In so
doing, it challenges conceptual orientations built on binaries of
difference that have impeded analyses of the interrelationship
between mobility and stasis. These include methodological
nationalism, which counterpoises concepts of internal and
international movement and native and foreigner, and consequently
normalises stasis. Instead, the book proposes a 'regimes of
mobility' framework that addresses the relationships between
mobility and immobility, localisation and transnational connection,
experiences and imaginaries of migration, and rootedness and
cosmopolitan openness. Within this framework and its emphasis on
social fields of differential power, the various contributors to
this collection ethnographically explore the disparities,
inequalities, racialised representations and national mythscapes
that facilitate and legitimate differential mobility and fixity.
Although they examine nation-state building processes, the
anthropological analysis is not confined by national boundaries.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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