Mobile sociology1
- 15 January 2010
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 61 (s1), 347-366
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01249.x
Abstract
This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: 'gamekeeping', networks, fluids, scapes, flows, complexity and iteration. The article concludes by suggesting that a 'global civil society' might constitute the social base of a sociology of mobilities as we move into the twenty-first century.Keywords
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