Bounded Mobilities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities

Published by transcript Verlag 2016

Bounded Mobilities

Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities

Edited by: Miriam Gutekunst , Andreas Hackl , Sabina Leoncini , Julia Sophia Schwarz and Irene Götz

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839431238

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About this book

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility.
This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.

Author / Editor information

Miriam Gutekunst (Dr. phil) is a cultural anthropologist and postdoc researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis). Her research is mainly focusing on migration and the European border regime, politics and bureaucracies, gender relations and (post-)colonial entanglements. Furthermore she is working on the practice of writing in research and teaching as well as questions of engaged anthropology.
Andreas Hackl is a social anthropologist at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His regional expertise lies in the Middle East and his fields of research include peace and conflict studies, displacement, migration and mobility.
Sabina Leoncini is a social anthropologist with a PhD from Florence University and a practicing pedagogue. Her research focused on mixed education in Israel/Palestine and explored the social and cultural significance of the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. Julia Sophia Schwarz studied European Ethnology and Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She conducted research on family, poverty and gender at the DJI (German Youth Institute). Irene Götz (Prof. Dr.) is a full professor of European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
Irene Götz (Prof. Dr.) holds a professorship of European Ethnology at LMU Munich. Her research fields cover nationalism, ethnography of work and ageing studies.

Reviews

»An important and timely contribution to mobilities research. Regarding the sophisticated use of language and analysis of the cases, the volume is suitable for researchers or graduate students who have some experience with mobilities literature rather than under graduate students or beginners in the field.«
Ilkay Tas Gursoy, Anatolia, 05.06.2017

Besprochen in:
Swiss Migration News, 05.07.2016
Contemporary Sociology 46/6 (2018), Emily Rauscher

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project Irene Götz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems Elena Bougleux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
I. Introduction
Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction Andreas Hackl, Julia Sophia Schwarz, Miriam Gutekunst and Sabina Leoncini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle‑Ground? An Interview with Bruno Riccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
II. Identities and Boundaries
“So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility Osvaldo Costantini and Aurora Massa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv Andreas Hackl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
From One Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank Sabina Leoncini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
III. Imagination and Time
(Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece Eleni Sideri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility Annika Lems and Christine Moderbacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Mobility in a Congealed Room? Asylum Seekers (in Munich) between Institutionalised Immobility and Self-Mobilisation Julia Sophia Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century Katrin Lehnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
IV. Gendered Im/mobilities
From the “Periphery” to the “Centre”: Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men Avital Binah-Pollak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Dislocating Punjabiyat: Gendered Mobilities among Indian Diasporas in Italy Sara Bonfanti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
V. Virtual Im/mobilities
“The World Has no Limits, so Why Should You?”: Migration through Marriage in Times of Increasing Digitalization and Securitization of Borders Miriam Gutekunst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Virtual Im/mobilities: Three Ethnographic Examples of Socialised Media Usage, Civic Empowerment and Coded Publics Daniel Kunzelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
VI. Fixations within Mobility and Multilocality
The Economic Diaspora: The Triple Helix of Im/mobilisation in the Hype about Migration and Development Maria Schwertl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
The Experience of Multilocal Living: Mobile Immobilities or Immobile Mobilities? Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix, Monika Götzö and Katrin Sontag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Conceptual Notes on the Freedom of Movement and Bounded Mobilities An afterword by Noel B. Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
List of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Border; Immobility; Ethnography; Inequality; Power Relations; Globalization; Migration; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology

eBook

Published: May 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839431238