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Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped
the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to
flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic
crisis-and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme
wealth-coincides with stern warnings over the risks posed by
climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an
out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought
of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a
minority to measure. This groundbreaking collection sets out to
challenge this perception. Through the careful examination of the
movements of the one per cent through the everyday spaces of the
ninety-nine per cent, Elite Mobilities investigates the shared
zones elites inhabit alongside the commons: the executive lounge in
the airport, the penthouse in the hotel, or the gated community
next to the slum. Bringing together the pioneer scholars in
critical sociology today, this collection explores how social
scientists can research, map, and 'track' the flows and residues of
objects, wealth and power surrounding the hypermobile. Elite
Mobilities sets a new benchmark in social science efforts to
research the powerful and the privileged. It will appeal to
students and scholars interested in mobilities, transport, tourism,
social stratification, class, inequality, consumption, and global
environmental change.
Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped
the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to
flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic
crisis-and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme
wealth-coincides with stern warnings over the risks posed by
climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an
out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought
of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a
minority to measure. This groundbreaking collection sets out to
challenge this perception. Through the careful examination of the
movements of the one per cent through the everyday spaces of the
ninety-nine per cent, Elite Mobilities investigates the shared
zones elites inhabit alongside the commons: the executive lounge in
the airport, the penthouse in the hotel, or the gated community
next to the slum. Bringing together the pioneer scholars in
critical sociology today, this collection explores how social
scientists can research, map, and 'track' the flows and residues of
objects, wealth and power surrounding the hypermobile. Elite
Mobilities sets a new benchmark in social science efforts to
research the powerful and the privileged. It will appeal to
students and scholars interested in mobilities, transport, tourism,
social stratification, class, inequality, consumption, and global
environmental change.
Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human
displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways
in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities
and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very
little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground
between mobilities and forced migration. This book sets out the
ways in which theories of mobilities can enrich forced migration
studies as well as some of the insights into mobilities that forced
migration research offers. The book covers the challenges faced by
both forced migrants and receiving authorities. It applies these
challenges to regions such as the Middle East, South Asia and East
Africa. In particular, the chapter on Iraq to Jordan foced
migration tests the sincerity of the concept of Pan-Arabism; the
chapters on Bangladesh and Ethiopia deal with the more historically
familiar variables of warfare and famine as drivers of forced
migration. This book will be of value to practitioners in the area
of human rights and to scholars of racial and ethnic politics,
human geography and globalization. This book was published as a
special issue of Mobilities.
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