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Sociology After the Mobilities Turn

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(Hannam stillness movement and moorings, immobilities. and of mobilities practices ofstructured kinds onvarious depend that informing processes of globalization power relations the in inherent (and projects political associated the view into brings claims 1993). This to(Massey globality, fluidity or opening) “power-geometries” global and local between relation the highlight to able especially are mobility to approaches new tourism, and travel imaginative communications, mobile transnationalism, infrastructure, transportation, ofmigration, studies together bringing By 2006). (Jessop fixes” “spatio-temporal as elaborated later and fixes” “spatial as described Harvey David what to linked are capital ofmobile concentrations and infrastructures 2). 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Aperson 2008: Montulet and (Kaufmann them” uses movement and to relative ofpossibilities field the appropriates orgroup individual an which in manner “the as defined of“motility,” concept the via analyzed are formobility potentials and capacities Differential capitalism. global driving or flying) and events of movement (such as commuting, migration, congestion, congestion, migration, commuting, ofmovement (such as events and orflying) driving riding, biking, walking, ofmovement (such as practices satellites), internet, the phones, (cars, technologies bodies, varied between ofaffordances kinds different many suggesting world, sensed the with bodies ofhuman engagements corporeal active are There accomplishments. kinaesthetic and objects, senses, the between affordance arelational as being-in-motion 2006a). Urry and (Sheller change social and action we locate where and processes of“social” boundaries the forchallenging ties approaches opportuni- of great sociology, it the more offers from it humanistic alienate also may this onesense in While environments. and objects, people, amongst circulates that and non-human and human both is that agency adistributed envisions and scales, across nections con- exploring it scales, were as “between” enters research approach to ontology, mobilities arelational Through structure. and ofagency imagination macro vs. byamicro notlimited is it because sociology, most than way adifferent in scale ittreats so, doing In space. and ment move- bodies, between relation the re-think radically more to perspectives of philosophical range onawider itbuilds because part in theory social classic from departs theory Mobilities Theorizing mobilities at different scales Sheller 2003, 2004). 2003, Sheller contemporary sociology. sociology. contemporary of concerns central be should ofwhich all mobility, oruneven ofdifferentiated kinds various of governance global and surveillance ofurbanism, histories) (and forms emerging and ism, is therefore research Mobilities fixes). highly engaged spatio-temporal and with debates fixes temporal over fixes, globalization, spatial ofongoing process cosmopolitanism, the (in remobilizations postcolonial- and ofdemobilizations forms byparticular created being effectively ofglobalization, processes to crucial is capital Uneven mobility forcoordination. resources other and time and infrastructures; and vehicles to access places; meeting secure and devices communication to access points; contact and information location-free for movement; capacities physical at-a-distance; networks to access qualifications; and money documents, appropriate including mobile, be to ofcapacities acombination as capital” “network describe (2010: 10–11) Urry and similarly Elliott crucial). move being cannot and can orwhat who regulating structures legal the formovement (with affordances political and social physical, surrounding the to relation in competencies, and capacities ofthese distribution uneven First, it draws on phenomenology to reconsider embodied practices and the production of production the and practices embodied reconsider to onphenomenology itdraws First, Here one can also begin to conceptualize “mobility capital” (Kaufmann (Kaufmann capital” “mobility conceptualize to begin also onecan Here Sociology after the Mobilities Turn Mobilities the after Sociology et al. 2004) as the the as 2004) et al. 2003; 49 Downloaded By: 10.3.98.104 At: 03:27 02 Oct 2021; For: 9781315857572, chapter3, 10.4324/9781315857572.ch3 Mimi Sheller 50 complex of production “the subjects describing by of affects and mobilities materialities, performativities, entwined bodies-in-movement-in-spaces” of improvisations expressive performative, more-than-representational, “the trace to begun have mobility (Hannam orpilgrimage) touring waiting, In this sense, the classical emphasis of sociology on agency and structure, and onthe and structure, and onagency ofsociology emphasis classical the sense, this In 9). 2006a: Urry and (Sheller telephony” mobile and signals, radio systems, surveillance ules, sched- signs, as such technologies informational the butalso airports, and subways rail, roads, as such technologies, transportational –especially assemblages socio-technical into spaces, and people connecting elements the and space, people, enroll which elements technological Büscher 1987, 1993; (Latour mobility (or disable) assist that practices and prostheses objects, technical infrastructures, more-than-human the to attention close pay also theorists mobilities ory, ofoffshoring. practices and piracy, economies, informal to crucial still is that 2009) (Scott governance ofstate evasion anarchistic power and subjects of visibility the and borders within ofmobility, formanagement strategies state regimes ofthe terms in of re-thought be also can mobility, resistance and movements social formation, ofstate questions ological versus soci- comparative and hidden historical Classic ofresistance. tactics and mobility ofcontrol power, strategies as capillary a power and tactical disciplinary counter-power, ofpower and relations in enmeshed deeply escape are ofwhich all 2009), from Urry and (Büscher state place-making and ofdwelling forms and tion, immobiliza- movement, blocked movement, potential butalso movement, physical not only concerns sense broadest its in research Mobilities mobile subjects. production of normalized the and slowness, and ofspeed representations visual and discourses of(im)mobility, ings mean- the address to governmentalities and genealogies onFoucauldian draws italso gested, sug- of(im)mobilities onhistories section preceding the As ofpractice. micro-sociology of et al. 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Places connections outoftheir (re)constituted ceaselessly butare noessence possess how places elucidates “rhythmanalysis that argues Edensor Tim geographer ofrhythmanalysis, concept (2004) Lefebvre’s uponHenri Picking places. making and textures, their sculpting feel, their shaping landscapes, and cities bodies, through ofmovement flow rhythms those and rhythms, different have Movements ment. move- ofour rhythms and frictions the through place create and world, the toward selves 2004). Urry and (Sheller orplaces-in-motion border-subjects ofmobile co-constitution the examining amove towards is there borders, pre-existing cross who subjects pre-constituted assuming than Rather ofstudy. field our about think might how to we nuanced contribution more important an as far a sub-disciplines ofthese offers all it in recognized Thus been has and tourism, including polarities. oftravel, kinds other various and positive and border-crossing ofmigration, view negative with (im)mobility of nesses still- and speeds the notmove, suffusing does and moves which that amongst circulates affect which in ways the and geographies, emotional with concerned very also It is non-movement. and stillness waiting, muchabout very also is too scale this at ofmobilities 2010). study The (Mountz etc. camps, refugee centers, detention motels, hotels, roads, toll airports, borders, orstopped: slowed paused, movement is which at places racial of liminal and in-between the politics are here Crucial performative air-space. and the sea-space ofmigration, governance re-think the and to borders secured economy difference, political of theories and theory lonial postco- oncritical draws also theory mobilities macro-level borders, its at boundaries fixed systems. infrastructural and form urban spatial affordances, with interactions ofpersonal level bodily the at notsimply is world it ofthe “agencement” is also very the But “assemblage.” as much translated “agencement,” called Deleuze ofwhat concerned sense humanist post- and with rhizomatic larger distributed, ofamore favor in displaced is society, and scalesindividual of spatial production, ideas” (Mom (Mom ideas” and sounds, narratives, images, substances, biological and chemical technology, capital, ofglobal processes kinetic ofthe investigations to locales, and nations different in mobility of transformation and arrival ofthe accounts to refugees, and migrants, pedestrians, passengers, drivers, ofvehicle experiences present and past of the analyses from range “will journal The scales. multiple ecol- urban and theory ogy, stratification expandingthe notion of social social of mobility spatio-temporal to wide-ranging contexts and concerns classical the of some re-casts research mobilities issues, sociological contemporary and ofhistorical range adiverse By revisiting Conclusion Through a kinaesthetic sense of bodily motion we apprehend time and space, orient our- orient space, and time we apprehend motion ofbodily sense akinaesthetic Through with container anational as imagined ofsociety straightjacket outofthe broken Having et al. 2011). 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