Tracing Mobilities: Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective

by Canzler,Weert; Kaufmann,Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780754648680
• ISBN10: 0754648680
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality, and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, the book presents a movement that begins with the macrosocial transformations linked to mobility and ends with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life.The book opens with a study of the social changes unique to the second age of modernity, with contributions from Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Wolfgang Bonss, and Sven Kesselring. It continues with a discussion of the implications of these changes for sociology research. Authors such as Vincent Kaufmann, Weert Canzler, Norbert Schneider, Beate Collet, Ruth Limmer and Gerlinde Vogl focus on a series of field examinations, both qualitative and quantitative, of emerging mobilities.The book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation.

Table of Contents

Preface

Tracing mobility - an introduction

Tracing Mobility Concepts and Theory: Moving on the mobility turn

Mobility and the cosmopolitan perspective

Between social and spatial mobilities: the issue of social fluidity

The wahlverwandschaft of modernity and mobility,

The mobile risk society

Finding Traces in Mobility Practices: The paradoxical nature of automobility

Job mobility and living arrangements

Working away from home: juggling private and professional lives, Estelle Bonnet

Networks, scapes and flows - mobility pioneers between 1st and 2nd modernity

Gateways for research - an outlook

Index.

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