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In this book researchers in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.
List of contents
Introduction: Pandemic (Im)mobilities
1. Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis
2. Anxious immobilities: an ethnography of coping with contagion (Covid-19) in Macau
3. Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world
4. Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities
5. What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society
6. Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics
7. De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic
8. Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions
About the author
Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.
Kevin Hannam is Professor in the Faculty of Business at City University of Macau.
Mimi Sheller is Dean of the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
David Tyfield is Professor of Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy at Lancaster University.
Summary
In this book researchers in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.
