
Critical Mobilities
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2013
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-82816-1 (ISBN)
Description
The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people, information).
This book engages critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of flows, the volume foregrounds questions of power, inequality, and moorings as integral to the movement of capital, goods, images, practices, or people. It brings together the work of several internationally renowned scholars, who engage with these movements at critical sites.
This is the first book to provide a critical and interdisciplinary view of mobilities covering a broad range of issues rather than a single domain. The chapters deal with current and important issues, such as organ transplants, illegal migrations, urban globalization, international policies of higher education institutions, and scientific diasporas. As a whole, the book provides new insights into how power relations shape mobilities and societies.
This book engages critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of flows, the volume foregrounds questions of power, inequality, and moorings as integral to the movement of capital, goods, images, practices, or people. It brings together the work of several internationally renowned scholars, who engage with these movements at critical sites.
This is the first book to provide a critical and interdisciplinary view of mobilities covering a broad range of issues rather than a single domain. The chapters deal with current and important issues, such as organ transplants, illegal migrations, urban globalization, international policies of higher education institutions, and scientific diasporas. As a whole, the book provides new insights into how power relations shape mobilities and societies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
25 s/w Zeichnungen
15 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-82816-1 (9780415828161)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ola Soederstroem (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Gianni D'Amato (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Francesco Panese (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Shalini Randeria (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Gianni D'Amato (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Francesco Panese (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Shalini Randeria (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Editor
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Content
1. Arriving at Urban Policies/the Urban: Traces of Elsewhere in Making City Futures 2. What Traveling Urban Types Do: Postcolonial Modernization in Two Globalizing Cities 3. Mobile Institutions of Higher Education. The Construction of New University Spaces in the United Arab Emirates 4. Citizenship in Worlds of Mobility 5. The Perplexities of Mobility 6. Mobilizing Against Mobility: Immigration Politics in a New Security World 7. (Re)thinking Transnationalism and Integration in the Digital Era: A Shift Towards Cosmopolitanism in the Study of International Migrations 8. Pharmaceutical Mobilities and the Market for Women's Reproductive Health: Moving HPV Vaccines and Contraceptives through NGOs and the State in India 9. Foreign Operations: Reflections on Clinical Mobility in Indian Film and Beyond