Full Description
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.
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
