Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Description

Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of action, a process of actively modulating or responding to how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading. Contents Introduction: Why and How Does the Pacing of Mobilities Matter? • Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar 1 The Ambiguous Role of ‘Pacemakers’ in the Paradoxical Quest for a Proper Pace of Life • Noel B. Salazar 2 Finding a Satisfying Pace: Navigating the Social Contingencies of Sport Mobilities • Noel Dyck and Hans K. Hognestad 3 Rhythm and Pace: The Diurnal Aspects of Leisure Mobilities on the UK Canals and Rivers • Maarja Kaaristo 4 ‘Time to Hit the Road’: Understanding Living on the Road through Shifts in Thinking about Time • Célia Forget 5 ‘We Must Stay for the Exams!’ Pacing Mobilities among Lifestyle Migrant Families in Goa, India • Mari Korpela 6 European Corporate Migrants in Chinese Metropolises and the Pacing of Family Mobility • Brigitte Suter 7 Leave/Remain: Brexit, Emotions and the Pacing of Mobility among the French in London • Deborah Reed-Danahay 8 ‘In a Couple of Years (or Three or Four), I’ll Stop Travelling So Much’: The Challenges of Modulating Skilled Work Mobility • Vered Amit Epilogue: Pacing Mobilized • Karen Fog Olwig Index