By Phillip Vannini

The Cultures of different Mobilities offers a sequence of ethnographic stories, concentrating on the neighborhood cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the standard feel of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them. Compensating for the surplus of idea and feedback in keeping with the concept of 'hypermobilities', this publication sheds gentle at the nuanced adjustments and idiosyncrasies of mobility, which will rediscovering meanings and existence marked by way of circulate and immobility. unique, empirical and worldwide case reports are offered via a global crew of students, exploring the advanced, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of stream. by means of fending off sweeping generalizations at the deeply attached and easily cellular nature of society as an entire, this quantity sheds gentle at the variety of mobility modes in an obtainable and interdisciplinary shape that would be of key curiosity, to sociologists, geographers and students of human mobility, conversation and culture.

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