Hybrid Mobilities: Transgressive Spatialities

The book explores the role of mobility as a structuring dimension of contemporary societies, highlighting the diversity of mobility situations and their contribution to the daily construction of urban, regional, and global spaces. It revisits concepts such as exclusion, heritage, and distance to understand spatialities beyond fixity/mobility, 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 established in situations of mobility. It emphasizes the importance of fully associating mobility with its characteristics of ephemerality and fluidity in our theorizations and understandings of spatialities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The role of mobility is increasingly becoming a crucial structuring dimension of contemporary societies, influenced by a multitude of factors such as globalization, geopolitical tensions, and the transformation of lifestyles. While social-science research has acknowledged these changes, there is a need for studies that encompass the diverse forms of mobility, ranging from commuting to tourists, backpackers, seasonal workers, and international migrants. This book aims to address this gap by exploring the diverse mobility situations studied in various cities around the world.

By adopting an interdisciplinary relational approach, the book revisits certain concepts such as exclusion, heritage, and distance to understand spatialities beyond the traditional oppositions of fixity/mobility, private/public, or here/elsewhere. It sheds light on the capacities for resistance of mobile persons in Singapore, Dakar, Bangkok, Amman, Paris, New York, and Mexico by examining the power relationships established in situations of mobility. The contributors also stress the normative injunctions of public policies and social practices by deciphering the values that characterize regimes of (im)mobility.

The originality of this work lies in its ability to capture the deployment of alternative spatialities and underline 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-structuralist posture, the book enables the establishment of a logic of "and" to design a "between of things" and to reverse ontology. This allows for the rethinking of temporary and connected spaces, challenging traditional notions of permanence and isolation.

In conclusion, this book offers a valuable contribution to the field of mobility studies by exploring the diverse mobility situations studied in various cities around the world. It provides insights into the power relationships, values, and resistance of mobile persons, and challenges traditional notions of spatiality. By adopting a post-structuralist approach, it enables the rethinking of temporary and connected spaces, paving the way for new understandings of urban, regional, and global spaces.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032071084