Methodologies of Mobility - Ethnography and Experiment

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries¿

Noel B. Salazar, Alice Elliot, and Roger Norum

Chapter 1. 'Few are the Roads I Haven't Travelled': Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic Expeditions

Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch

Chapter 2. Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on Wheels

¿Hege Høyer Leivestad

Chapter 3. Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile Methods

Chris Vasantkumar

Chapter 4. From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europe's 'Illegality Industry'

Ruben Andersson

Chapter 5. Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in Tokyo

Jamie Coates

Chapter 6. Meeting a Friend of a Friend: Snowballing with Mr. Hansen in Naples

Hans Lucht

Chapter 7. 'Being There Where?' Designing Digital-Visual Methods for Moving With/In Iran

Shireen Walton

Chapter 8. Fixating a Fluid Field: Photography as Anthropology in Migration Research

Christian Vium

Afterword: Im/mobile Method/ologies

Simone Abram

Index

About the author

Alice Elliot is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK.

Roger Norum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, a researcher on the HERA project Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North, and co-convenor of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB).

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven and Founder of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Elliot, Alice (EDT)/ Norum Elliot, Alice Norum Elliot, Roger Norum, Noel B. Salazar
• Assisted by: Alice Elliot (Editor), Elliot Alice (Editor), Roger Norum (Editor), Norum Roger (Editor), Noel B Salazar (Editor), Noel B. Salazar (Editor), Salazar Noel B. (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues_UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781789200607
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-060-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Worlds in Motion
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Mobility, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity