Article ID: CBB764076041

Immobility: The Relational and Experiential Qualities of an Ambiguous Concept (December 2021)

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In this article, I discuss immobility as both an analytical concept and a lived experience. I review contemporary scholarly understandings of immobility and disentangle the unavoidable relational dynamics with its positive linguistic opposite, mobility. Concrete illustrations from migration studies and the global coronavirus crisis illustrate how immobility, at various scales of analysis and experience, is not only theoretically but also socially, economically, and politically relevant. Together with the in-depth review of existing scholarship, these examples confirm that the conceptual distinction made between immobility and mobility is often purely heuristic. In the messiness of people’s lives, mobility and immobility are not mutually exclusive categories but, rather, two dynamic sides of the same coin.

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Authors & Contributors
Supurna Banerjee
Hosna J. Shewly
Gordon Mathews
Syntia Hasenöhrl
Godfrey Baldacchino
Taylor, Jack
Journals
Transfers
Public Understanding of Science
Publishers
The University of Chicago Press
University of Rochester Press
Indiana University Press
Concepts
Mobility
Migration
Mobility studies
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Scholarly journals
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Africa
Europe
China
Mediterranean Sea
Guangzhou (China)
Bangladesh
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