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This special issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology on 'Contentious Mobilities' showcases Canadian scholarship that investigates mobilities in the context of unequal power relations. Mobilities become contentious when they confront the systematic exclusion of others, advance unconventional mobile practices and defy or destabilize existing power relations. Increasingly, mobilities are contentious in relation to rapidly changing economies, societies and environments. This special issue stages an overdue encounter between the mobilities paradigm and research on sociopolitical contention. Simultaneously, this special issue addresses an empirical gap, featuring Canada as a prolific and influential site for leading-edge research. Five key themes emerge amongst the diverse papers in this issue: life and death, employment-related mobility, intersectionality/in(visibility), governance, and automobility. Further, we identify five potential topics for Canadian mobilities, including climate change, disaster, technology and travel, the good city and methods.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Introducing the Mobilities Turn -- 1 Does Mobility Have a Future? -- 2 Mobility and Transport Disadvantage -- 3 Structures of Encounterability: Space, Place, Paths and Identities -- 4 Perspectives on Young People's Daily Mobility, Transport and Service Access in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 Research on Mobility and Lifestyle – What are the Results? -- 6 Egos' Horizons and Behind Them: Snowball Sampling on Personal Leisure Networks -- 7 Connected, Computed, Collective: Smart Mobilities -- 8 Technology Fix Versus Behaviour Change -- 9 The Impact of Differences in Commuting Duration on Family Travel and Activity Patterns in the London and Paris Regions -- 10 Transport and Social Exclusion: Where Are We Now? -- 11 What We Do Whilst Driving: Towards the Driverless Car -- 12 Configuring Commuters' Accessibility to Multimedia Mobile Services: The Case of Bluetooth 'Augmented' Advertising in the Paris Metro -- 13 Young People, Mobility and the Environment: An Integrative Approach -- 14 Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: Towards a Twin Transition -- 15 Transport History, the Usable Past and the Future of Mobility -- 16 Aviation and Ethnicity: An Under-investigated Area -- 17 Bridging the Mobility Gap: The Role of ITS -- Epilogue: The Mobility of the Sick: Perverse Organisational Premises in the Transport Arrangements of the Contemporary National Health Service

"By introducing the new concept of alternative (im)mobilities, this collection draws attention to a different approach to mobility practices. In doing so, this ground-breaking volume explores a range of issues related related to (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic, transport and social practices, and media and urban tourism. Designed and organized in a legally or illegally way, alternative (im)mobilities are examples of those daily practices of displacement of people, objects, and information, which mobilize a multidisciplinary framework of urbanization, shedding light on important and long-standing issues of inequality and the lack of recognition of diversity in economics, social and culture urban life. This volume opens up a new set of research questions related to the complex ways in which informal actors cope with their everyday life experience, regarding dwelling, commuting, working, caring of vulnerable people, health issues, access to information, among other mobility practices, besides the lack of essential - and infrastructural - public services. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in geography and the social sciences interested in mobilities, transport, communication, tourism, mobility justice and inequality, public decision making and health studies"--

"Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of Mobility studies developed in Brazil, it builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging countries from the Global South. Addressing such different areas as Tourism, Urbanisation, Media Studies, Social Inequalities, Marketing and Mega-events, Transport and Technology, among others, the contributors use the New Mobilities Paradigm- NMP (Sheller & Urry, 2006) as a starting point to reflect about the social changes experienced in the country and they also engage with newer literature on mobilities, including work done by Brazilian and Latin-American authors depending on the subject of each individual chapter. Illustrating to scholars the uniqueness and complexity of the Brazilian social-political and economic context, the book was organized in order to be a representative sample of the studies carried in Brazil, as well as to contribute to other academic investigations on (im)mobilities and different social realities in emerging countries"--

1. Beyond the Italies : Italy as a mobile subject? / Pamela Ballinger -- 2. Italian mobilities and circulating diasporas in neoliberal times / Nicholas Harney -- 3. Contact, contagion, immunization : Gianni Amelio's Lamerica (1994) / Rhiannon Noel Welch -- 4. Becoming ospite : hospitality and mobility at the center of temporary permanence / Stephanie Malia Hom -- 5. Italian mobilities and the demos / Guido Tintori -- 6. Migrating to the colonies and building the myth of 'Italiani brava gente' : the rise, demise, and legacy of Italian settler colonialism / Francesca Locatelli -- 7. Imagining lampedusa / Aine O'Healy -- 8. Coasts, blockades, and the free movement of people / David Forgacs.

ForewordMikkel Bille1. Material MobilitiesOle B. Jensen, Claus Lassen and Ida S. G. Lange2. From Structure to Infrastructuring? On Transport Infrastructures and Socio-Material OrderingTobias Röhl3. The Cathedrals of Automobility: How to Read a Motor ShowRichard Randell Interlude 1: Immaterial Immobilities and the Infrastructuring of Mobile Utopia Interview with Monika Büscher 4. Relating Movement to Information in Consumer Mobilities, Using Space SyntaxZofia Bednarowska and Jamie O'Brien5. "It's Going to Be Very Slippery": Snow, Space and Mobility While Learning Cross-Country SkiingPaul McIlvenny6. Moving Forward -- Left Behind: Asynchrone Experiences. The Use of Mobile Media Technologies When Young People Leave. Ida Wentzel Winther and Rune Bundgaard 7. Mapping Unknown Knowns of Transit InfrastructuresElisa Diogo Silva, Ditte Bendix Lanng and Simon WindInterlude 2: Five Ways to Make Them Political Interview with Albena Yaneva8. Designing Places for Experiences: A Study of Architectural PracticesJørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Anita Schou Kjølbæk9. A Material Review of Costa Rica's Attempt to Carbon Neutrality: Assembling Heterogeneous Actor-Networks of Emissions, Mobilities and CalculationsYamil Hasbun10. Acupunctural Mobilities Design 'From Below': Reflecting on Uneven Material Mobilities in the Global South, the Caracas a Pie CaseAndrea V. Hernandez Bueno and Ditte Bendix LanngInterlude 3: Material Mobilities -- 'Keynote Interlude' Interview with Ole B. Jensen11. Moving With: Molecular Mobilities and Our Connective Tissue FasciaDoerte Weig12. Mobile Work, Space and Processes of TransitionHanne Vesala and Seppo Tuomivaara13. Dwelling on the MoveCecilie Breinholm Christensen

Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis-and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth-coincides with stern warnings over the risks posed by climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a minority to measure.This groundbreaking collection sets out to challenge this pe

Las preocupaciones centrales de la investigación sobre movilidad - explorar el contexto más amplio y los aspectos humanos del movimiento - son fundamentales para comprender el sector del transporte marítimo de mercancías. Los desafíos al medio ambiente, los intentos de prácticas más sostenibles, los cambios en el sistema geoeconómico, el poder político, el trabajo, el desarrollo económico y las cuestiones de gobernanza se encuentran entre los temas tratados en este libro. Su objetivo es abordar los problemas del transporte marítimo no solo en el contexto del movimiento sino dentro del paradigma de las movilidades; examinar los efectos negativos del sistema causados ¿¿por bloqueos e ineficiencias, examinar las demoras y el desperdicio de recursos, identificar las externalidades negativas, explorar las relaciones de poder e identificar a los ganadores y perdedores en el sistema comercial globalizado con un enfoque particular en la red marítima. Por tanto, la movilidad marítima tiene como objetivo construir un puente entre los enfoques académicos marítimos "tradicionales" y el paradigma de la movilidad. Este volumen es de gran importancia para quienes estudian economía industrial, industrias navieras y geografía del transporte. ; The central concerns of mobilities research ¿ exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector. Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system, political power, labour, economic development and governance issues are all among the topics covered in this book. The aim of this volume is to address issues of maritime transport not only in the simple context of movement but within the mobilities paradigm. The goal is to examine negative system effects caused by blockages and inefficiencies, examine delays and wastage of resources, identify negative externalities, explore power relations and identify the winners and losers in the globalised trade ...

This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals' mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal's mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals' mobilities, and how animals' mobilities are governed. The conclusion highlights what these fields gain from this synthesis, and identifies the empirical, political and conceptual contributions that this concept makes to geographical research. The argument is illustrated with examples of large, terrestrial mammals, especially bears.

"The central concerns of mobilities research - exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector. Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system, political power, labour, economic development and governance issues are all among the topics covered in this book. The aim of this volume is to address issues of maritime transport not only in the simple context of movement but within the mobilities paradigm. The goal is to examine negative system effects caused by blockages and inefficiencies, examine delays and wastage of resources, identify negative externalities, explore power relations and identify the winners and losers in the globalised trade system with a particular focus on the maritime network. Maritime Mobilities therefore aims to build a bridge between "traditional" maritime academic approaches and the mobilities paradigm. This volume is of great importance to those who study industrial economics, shipping industries and transport geography"--

"The central concerns of mobilities research--exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector. Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system, political power, labour, economic development and governance issues are all among the topics covered in this book. The aim of this volume is to address issues of maritime transport not only in the simple context of movement but within the mobilities paradigm. The goal is to examine negative system effects caused by blockages and inefficiencies, examine delays and wastage of resources, identify negative externalities, explore power relations and identify the winners and losers in the globalised trade system with a particular focus on the maritime network. Maritime Mobilities therefore aims to build a bridge between "traditional" maritime academic approaches and the mobilities paradigm. This volume is of great importance to those who study industrial economics, shipping industries and transport geography."--Provided by publisher

The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people, information). This book engages critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of flows, the volume foregrounds questions of power, inequality, and moorings as integral to the movement of capital, goods, images, practices, or people. It brings together the work of several internationally renowned scholars, who engage with these movements at critical sites. This is the first book to provide a critical and interdisciplinary view of mobilities covering a broad range of issues rather than a single domain