Bounded Mobilities : : Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities /

Bounded Mobilities : : Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities / / ed. by Irene Götz, Julia Sophia Schwarz, Sabina Leoncini, Andreas Hackl, Miriam Gutekunst.

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolida...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Binah-Pollak, Avital,
Bonfanti, Sara,
Bougleux, Elena,
Costantini, Osvaldo,
Duchêne-Lacroix, Cédric,
Gutekunst, Miriam,
Götz, Irene,
Götzö, Monika,
Hackl, Andreas,
Kunzelmann, Daniel,
Lehnert, Katrin,
Lems, Annika,
Leoncini, Sabina,
Massa, Aurora,
Moderbacher, Christine,
Schwarz, Julia Sophia,
Schwertl, Maria,
Sideri, Eleni,
Sontag, Katrin,
HerausgeberIn:
Gutekunst, Miriam,
Götz, Irene,
Hackl, Andreas,
Leoncini, Sabina,
Schwarz, Julia Sophia,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Kultur und soziale Praxis
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project
  • Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems
  • I. Introduction
  • Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction
  • Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle‑Ground?
  • II. Identities and Boundaries
  • "So, now I am Eritrean": Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility
  • Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv
  • From One Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank
  • III. Imagination and Time
  • (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece
  • On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility
  • Mobility in a Congealed Room?
  • Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century
  • IV. Gendered Im/mobilities
  • From the "Periphery" to the "Centre": Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men
  • Dislocating Punjabiyat: Gendered Mobilities among Indian Diasporas in Italy
  • V. Virtual Im/mobilities
  • "The World Has no Limits, so Why Should You?": Migration through Marriage in Times of Increasing Digitalization and Securitization of Borders
  • Virtual Im/mobilities: Three Ethnographic Examples of Socialised Media Usage, Civic Empowerment and Coded Publics
  • VI. Fixations within Mobility and Multilocality
  • The Economic Diaspora: The Triple Helix of Im/mobilisation in the Hype about Migration and Development
  • The Experience of Multilocal Living: Mobile Immobilities or Immobile Mobilities?
  • Conceptual Notes on the Freedom of Movement and Bounded Mobilities
  • List of Authors

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