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What causes families to buy or give up a car in the U.S.? Following the mobility biography approach, we use a nationally representative panel data set, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), to examine the role of life events and changes in the built environment and compare the effect that these events have on changes in car ownership. We find that coupling, graduating from college, and the birth or adoption of a child all are associated with increases in car ownership, while breaking up is associated with decreases in car ownership. Moving to or away from transit-rich, dense, walkable neighborhoods matters but only when one moves to a very different type of neighborhood. We also find that life events have a stronger association with gaining a car for non-poor families than for families in poverty. Life events are windows of opportunity when families reevaluate their travel patterns. Interventions at these critical junctures could be an expedient way to decrease car ownership and its attendant problems, especially when combined with improving alternatives to the automobile.

In this article, we suggest (im)mobility biography as a method for reconstructing human (im)mobilities and related negotiations of meanings of place, time and social interaction. Based on biographical-narrative approaches and participatory ideals the combination of life history interviewing with a participatory timeline tool is the best fit for capturing individuals' life-worlds over time. After presenting theoretical presuppositions on relational meanings of place, time and social interaction, we provide an overview of biographical and participatory research in the context of human (im)mobilities and sketch methodological origins of the life history interview and the timeline tool. Furthermore, we address issues essential for planning and preparing (im)mobility biography, and demonstrate two different applications of the method in migration contexts in Germany and Ecuador. Subsequently, we present options for analysis and interpretation of textual and graphical data outputs. Keeping in mind strengths and challenges, we consider (im)mobility biography a valuable method for capturing (im)mobile life-worlds as well as contextual embeddedness of individual decision-making on moving or staying. Especially in terms of its participatory orientation, the visualization of migration trajectories facilitates structuration and memorization of life histories, allows for shared analysis even at the interview stage, and encourages participants to reflect on their biographies.

Ausgangspunkt der Sichtung von Theoretisierungen, Befunden und Erfahrungen zum Zusammenhang von sozialer Mobilität und biografischen Konstruktionen ist die These, dass sich mit der Prekarisierung und der Transnationalisierung von Lebensführungen in westeuropäischen Gesellschaften die Konzepte von sozialer Mobilität und Biografie substanziell verschieben. Im Beitrag werden aktuelle Forschungen zu transnationalen Biografien und Fluchtmigration aufgegriffen, um Impulse aus den raumzeitlichen Konstellationen der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft für den Zusammenhang von sozialer Mobilität und Biografie aufzunehmen. Schauplatz aktueller Verhandlungen um soziale Mobilität ist auch die Universität, an der heterogen situierte Studierende mit ihren Fragestellungen universitäre Methodenausbildung herausfordern und neu ausrichten.

This is a biography of James Harrington. It addresses the complexities of Harrington's republicanism, examines his views on issues such as democracy and social mobility, and explores his contribution to a range of contemporary debates. Through Harrington's story, we see the development of seventeenth-century ideas and their relevance to the modern world.

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit systematischen Zusammenhängen zwischen biografischen Wohn- und Mobilitätserfahrungen und der Etablierung multilokaler Wohnarrangements. Es wird argumentiert, dass aufgrund von Lern- und Sozialisationseffekten vorhergehende Erfahrungen mit Multilokalität die Neigung und die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Akteurinnen und Akteuren erhöht, sich in späteren Phasen des Lebensverlaufs erneut zu multilokalisieren. Erste empirische Befunde liegen aus einer groß angelegten Schweizer Studie zu multilokalem Wohnen und einem Experiment zu Mobilitätsentscheidungen unter Schweizer Akademikerinnen und Akademikern vor. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass frühere Erfahrungen mit Multilokalität deutlich mit aktuellen und intendierten multilokalen Arrangements korrespondieren, und dass Personen mit und ohne Multilokalitätserfahrung die Bedingungen bei der Entscheidung zu Multilokalität unterschiedlich gewichten. Die Befunde verweisen auf die Bedeutung wohn- und mobilitätsspezifischer Sozialisation im Lebensverlauf.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Sao Paulo : models of urban growth -- Collective living in South America : a primer -- Mobility infrastructure : driver of the urban project -- Urban plans and visions : a genealogy of Sao Paulo -- An evolutionary plan : connecting the city to the river.

One of the effects of the process of modernization is increased opportunity for individuation and, consequently, for social mobility, where meritocracy and acquisition are more relevant than ascription. This is clearly the case in Spain, although there have been few studies which relate it to gender and the differences that may exist between dwelling places. Using data froma a survey for the International Project on Structure, Biography and Class Consciousness, this paper shows that there are significant differences between the sexes and where they reside during the mobility cycle. Furthermore, contrary to expectation, meritocracy plays a prominent role among women who live in rural areas.

"This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of 'transnational' connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of colonized and subaltern communities in these processes, and their legacies in the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have begun to explore Indigenous networks and 'transnational' encounters, and to consider the broader significance of 'extra-local' connections, exchanges and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, including global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book charts an important new direction in research"--

Edu.net- Front Cover -- Edu.net -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Networks, globalisation and policy mobility -- Reading the book -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Network ethnography and 'following policy' -- Introduction -- Policy networks and policy mobilities -- Globalising networks and ethnography -- Policy networks and mobilities in Ghana -- Rich people's politics -- A moving form -- Money, commitment, pipelines and networks -- Networks and local clusters -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Following people, the life, the biography -- Network capital -- Connecting, cooperating, sharing and combining -- Policy stories and a discursive ensemble -- Discussion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Following things: the mobilisation of global forms -- What 'things' and how to catch them -- Contextualising 'things' -- Grand narratives and little stories -- A multibillion-dollar global market -- A scoping exercise -- Blended learning on the move: SPARK Schools -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Following money -- Pearson plc -- The need for affordable solutions to global challenges in education -- The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) -- A global portfolio -- Building up the ecosystem -- Bridge International Academies -- A tale of cumulative advantage -- Novastar Ventures -- Conclusion: investment beyond investment -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Following the plot, the story, the narrative -- Introduction -- Researching the wheres of policy -- Circuits of knowledge and capital -- Conference talk -- Rewarding innovation -- Building an ecosystem -- Experts of truth -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Following reform -- Increased reflexivity and porosity of policymaking locales -- Transnationalisation of policy discourses, debates and dialogues, and cosmopolitanisation of policy actors and action -- Network ethnography -- Notes

This article analyses the social and economic situation of the citizens deprived of suffrage for engagement in trade during the years of the NEP, with reference to a biography reconstruction of Vasily Ivanovich Lagutkin (1883–1933), an ordinary USSR citizen. The methodological basis of the research is the anthropological approach and a synthesis of macro- and microhistory. The main source of research is the personal file of a citizen who filed a petition to the election commission demanding that his right to vote lost for engagement in trade be restored. The specifics of Lagutkin's biography are that for 34 years, he was professionally engaged in book trade both in private and in state organisations before and after 1917. The legalisation of private entrepreneurship in 1921 allowed him to start his own business. His trade continued until 1929 and, apparently, was successful, but the process of forced removal of private entrepreneurship from trade led Lagutkin to bankruptcy. Unemployment and high professional mobility in the following years, desperate but unsuccessful attempts to achieve restoration in his right to vote, progressive chronic illness and deterioration of health eventually led to his death in a psychiatric hospital in Perm at the age of 50. Being loyal to the Soviet authorities, expressing a desire to be useful to them, he could not reclaim his right to vote, since the decision to restore it was made on formal grounds which Lagutkin did not meet. The fate of a particular person in the transition era makes it possible to reflect the process of social construction of the "new person", who, contrary to the declared goals, not only provoked downward social mobility and negative social selection, but in extreme cases led to the death of the individual.

Social network membership and biography shape a person's mental map and social network geography, and thus should influence his or her travel behaviour. This paper discusses what content needs to be added to the current set of questions asked in travel behaviour surveys if we want to capture those concepts. The discussion proceeds conceptually, as there is little empirical work so far on which to draw. The challenges involved in integrating the necessary questions about biographies and social networks are considerable. The protocols will have to rely on more personal contact between the survey and the respondent, either by phone or in person.

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with.

The debate on residential self-selection (RSS) in the travel field seeks to answer the question of whether and to what extent spatial differences in traveling may be explained in spatial terms or to what extent, rather, they are explained by the unequal spatial distribution of people's social and personal characteristics, particularly their neighborhood and travel preferences. Arguing primarily from a European—specifically, German— perspective, this paper makes a case for integrating the RSS-travel link into the mobility biographies approach that has emerged over the past decade. This approach addresses travel behavior as being embedded in other "spheres" of an individual's life course, most notably the household and family biographies, the employment biography, and the residential biography. This paper argues that stability and change in travel behavior
must be considered not only in concert with residential location choice, but also in the wider context of life course, in which residential choices themselves are embedded. Some unresolved issues in the RSS-travel debate that seem to be of key importance for the current debate are discussed, including various aspects of residential location choice, the role of preferences, and implications for spatial planning and transport planning. The benefits of taking a biographical perspective are also pointed out.