Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Pacing Mobilities

Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Edited by: Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar

Volume 8 in the series Worlds in Motion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207255

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Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of action, a process of actively modulating or responding to how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.

Author / Editor information

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author or editor of numerous books including most recently Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality with Nigel Rapport (Pluto Press, 2012) and Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (Berghahn Books, 2015).

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Envisioning Eden (Berghahn Books, 2010) and Momentous Mobilities (Berghahn Books, 2018). He is the founder of Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) and the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob).

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author or editor of numerous books including most recently Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality with Nigel Rapport (Pluto Press, 2012) and Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (Berghahn Books, 2015).

Reviews

“The comprehensive discussion developed in each chapter benefits from rich ethnographic accounts and diverse theoretical frameworks. Thus, it provides insights into mobilities that exceed the particular scope of the volume. This volume could benefit anybody interested in studying and understanding mobilities more broadly. It draws relations between the sociocultural context within which mobility occurs, the desires and struggles of those who undertake it, and how the overall spatio-temporal mobility experience may affect those who undertake it.” • Irish Journal of Anthropology

“I rate this book very highly. It consolidates research around a topic (pace) that has been floating around in the literature for a while, but that hasn’t been theorized and studied in a systematic manner yet.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross

“This is an excellent book … adding a much-needed intervention in the literature on mobilities in insisting on the ways in which temporal dimensions of movement work in the planning and execution of the journeys composing middling migrants’ lives.” • Caroline Knowles, Goldsmith’s, University of London

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INTRODUCTION Why and How Does the Pacing of Mobilities Matter? Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 The Ambiguous Role of ‘Pacemakers’ in the Paradoxical Quest for a Proper Pace of Life Noel B. Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER 2 Finding a Satisfying Pace: Navigating the Social Contingencies of Sport Mobilities Noel Dyck and Hans K. Hognestad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
CHAPTER 3 Rhythm and Pace: The Diurnal Aspects of Leisure Mobilities on the UK Canals and Rivers Maarja Kaaristo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
CHAPTER 4 ‘Time to Hit the Road’ Understanding Living on the Road through Shifts in Thinking about Time Célia Forget Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
CHAPTER 5 ‘We Must Stay for the Exams!’ Pacing Mobilities among Lifestyle Migrant Families in Goa, India Mari Korpela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
CHAPTER 6 European Corporate Migrants in Chinese Metropolises and the Pacing of Family Mobility Brigitte Suter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
CHAPTER 7 Leave/Remain: Brexit, Emotions and the Pacing of Mobility among the French in London Deborah Reed-Danahay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
CHAPTER 8 ‘In a Couple of Years (or Three or Four), I’ll Stop Travelling So Much’ The Challenges of Modulating Skilled Work Mobility Vered Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
EPILOGUE Pacing Mobilized Karen Fog Olwig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 200
Keywords: Mobility Studies; Anthropology (General)

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Published: June 11, 2020
ISBN: 9781789207255