If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Mobilities
- Vol. 1 (1), 75-94
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100500489080
Abstract
This paper is concerned with conceptions of mobility and immobility. Although I argue that practically everything is mobile, for mobility to be analytically useful as a term we must focus on the contingent relations between movements. Building upon theories of mobility from geography, sociology, cultural studies and, in particular, Urry's ‘mobility/moorings dialectic’, the paper draws these ideas out using examples from the airport terminal.Keywords
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