Table Of Content‘This book convincingly shows us why a mobility lens is crucial to
understanding nation- states, cities, territories, neighbourhoods, homes and
other spatial formations. Highly relevant in an age gripped by the contentious
politics around borders and mobilities.’
Professor Brenda Yeo, National University of Singapore
‘An edited collection that takes seriously the dialectical relationship between
mobility and place through a vivid and diverse set of examples and approaches –
through Marrakesh to Mexico City, from homes and heritage, to mobile and
migrant subjects arriving, being driven, some stranded in- transit, in domestic
labour, others leaving and tourists leaving things behind. Cattan and Faret
have curated a series of wonderful entries sensitive to context, place, vehicle,
and experience; to gendered and raced differentiations of mobility that con-
dense around the material nuclei of mobility and stasis and stasis in mobility,
in intimate practices, alternative belongings, policy formations and the spaces
between them. A terrific and inspiring collection.’
Professor Peter Adey, Royal Holloway University of London
Hybrid Mobilities
Diverse factors like globalization, geopolitical tensions, and the transform-
ation of lifestyles are strengthening the role of mobility as a structuring
dimension of contemporary societies. Social- science research has taken note
of these changes, but few studies cross the different forms of mobility, ranging
from commuting to tourists and backpackers, and on to seasonal workers
or international migrants. The diversity of mobility situations studied in this
book highlights the contribution of the reality of mobility in the daily con-
struction of urban, regional, and global spaces, as well as in the redefinition
of socio- spatial concepts.
By using an interdisciplinary relational approach, the book revisits cer-
tain concepts such as exclusion, heritage, or distance, in order to understand
spatialities beyond the oppositions of fixity/m obility, private/ public, or here/
elsewhere. The book sheds light on the capacities for resistance of mobile
persons in Singapore, Dakar, Bangkok, Amman, Paris, New York, or Mexico
by studying the power relationships that are established in situations of
mobility. By deciphering the values that characterize regimes of (im)mobility,
the contributors stress the normative injunctions of public policies and social
practices.
The originality of the work lies in capturing the deployment of alterna-
tive spatialities and underlining how they are reshaped between sedentary and
mobility regimes. It highlights the importance of fully associating mobility
with its characteristics of ephemerality and fluidity, in our theorizations and
understandings of spatialities. By taking a post-s tructuralist posture, the
book makes it possible to establish a logic of ‘and’ to design a ‘between’ of
things, and to reverse ontology. This allows the temporary and the connected
to be rehabilitated, beyond distance, in our practical knowledge of spatialities
and territorialities. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars of geog-
raphy, sociology, anthropology, and urban studies with interests in mobility,
migration and relational thought.
Nadine Cattan is a research director in geography at the French National
Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She was previously director of a unit
on territorial indicators and statistics at the OECD. She has also chaired an
expert group on gateways at the DATAR, the French government’s regional
development planning agency. Her main research interests aim to understand
how mobilities are likely to modify society’s relationships to space and so lead
to a reinterpretation of spatial concepts and theories. She has provided a crit-
ical overview on the issues of polycentrism and spatial integration in Europe.
She has also developed spatial models to explain how metropolitan areas are
being transformed. Her current research integrates gender to understand
how genders contribute to reshaping territorialities and urban space. Her
published works include: Cities and networks in Europe. A critical approach
of polycentrism (2007) and Atlas mondial des sexualités. Libertés, plaisirs et
interdits (2016).
Laurent Faret is a professor of geography at the University of Paris, a
member of CESSMA, and currently on research leave at CIESAS (Centro de
Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico City,
with the Research Institute for Development (IRD). He is a member of the
LMI MESO, an international collaborative program between France, Mexico,
and Central American countries. His research interests include: the evolution
of international migration dynamics and the related territorial and polit-
ical transformations; the urban dynamics resulting from transit movements
and settlement of mobile populations; and the production of transnational
mobility spaces and their effects on the dynamics of development in the Global
South, at different scales. He is the author or editor of various books on these
themes, such as Migrant Protection and the City in the Americas (2021), Les
circulations transnationales. Lire les turbulences migratoires contemporaines
(2009), Migrants des Suds (2009), and Les territoires de la mobilité. Migration
et communautés transnationales entre le Mexique et les Etats- Unis (2003).
Changing Mobilities
Series Editors: Monika Büscher, Peter Adey
This series explores the transformations of society, politics and everyday
experiences wrought by changing mobilities, and the power of mobilities
research to inform constructive responses to these transformations. As a new
mobile century is taking shape, international scholars explore motivations,
experiences, insecurities, implications and limitations of mobile living, and
opportunities and challenges for design in the broadest sense, from policy
to urban planning, new media and technology design. With world citizens
expected to travel 105 billion kilometres per year in 2050, it is critical to make
mobilities research and design inform each other.
Cycling
A Sociology of Vélomobility
Peter Cox
Sea Log
Indian Ocean to New York
May Joseph
Material Mobilities
Edited by Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen and Ida S. G. Lange
Brazilian Mobilities
Edited by Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira and Camila Maria dos
Santos Moraes
Made to Work
Mobilising Contemporary Worklives
Breda Gray, Luigina Ciolfi and Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho
Hybrid Mobilities
Transgressive Spatialities
Edited by Nadine Cattan and Laurent Faret
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/
Changing- Mobilities/ book- series/ CHGMOB
Hybrid Mobilities
Transgressive Spatialities
Edited by
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Contents
List of images xi
List of figures xii
List of tables xiii
Notes on the contributors xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction: when mobilities construct spatialities 1
NADINE CATTAN AND LAURENT FARET
PART I
A relational approach: insights into the building
of sociospatial concepts 13
1 Tenements in New York and riads in Marrakesh:
mobilities and the new paradigm of heritagization 15
MARIA GRAVARI- BARBAS
2 Urban mobilities and power: social exclusion by design in
the city 37
OLE B. JENSEN
3 Rethinking ‘ethnic neighborhoods’ after the mobility turn 56
NANCY L. GREEN
4 Clouds and movements 76
PANOS BOURLESSAS AND ALBERTO VANOLO
5 Transportation vehicles in Africa: between autonomy and
the administration of space 94
JÉRÔME LOMBARD
