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Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality, and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, the book presents a movement that begins with the macrosocial transformations linked to mobility and ends with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life.The book opens with a study of the social changes unique to the second age of modernity, with contributions from Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Wolfgang Bonss, and Sven Kesselring. It continues with a discussion of the implications of these changes for sociology research. Authors such as Vincent Kaufmann, Weert Canzler, Norbert Schneider, Beate Collet, Ruth Limmer and Gerlinde Vogl focus on a series of field examinations, both qualitative and quantitative, of emerging mobilities.The book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation.
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TRACING MOBILITIES
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Tracing Mobilities Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective
Edited by WEERT CANZLER Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany VINCENT KAUFMANN Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland SVEN KESSELRING Technische Universität München, Germany
© Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England
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Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Tracing mobilities : towards a cosmopolitan perspective. (Transport and society) 1. Population geography - Social aspects 2. Migration, Internal - Social aspects 3. Cosmopolitanism 4. Social mobility 5. Labor mobility 6. Social change I. Canzler, Weert II. Kaufmann, Vincent, 1969III. Kesselring, Sven, 1966307.2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tracing mobilities : towards a cosmopolitan perspective / edited by Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-4868-0 1. Population geography--Social aspects. 2. Migration, Internal--Social aspects. 3. Cosmopolitanism. 4. Social mobility. 5. Labor mobility. 6. Social change. I. Canzler, Weert. II. Kaufmann, Vincent. III. Kesselring, Sven, 1966HB1951.T73 2007 307.2--dc22 2007017561
ISBN 978 0 7546 4868 0
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Preface Tracing Mobilities – An Introduction Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring
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PART I TRACING MOBILITY CONCEPTS AND THEORY 1
Moving on the Mobility Turn John Urry
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Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Perspective Ulrich Beck
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Between Social and Spatial Mobilities: The Issue of Social Fluidity Vincent Kaufmann and Bertrand Montulet
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The Wahlverwandtschaft of Modernity and Mobility Stephan Rammler
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The Mobile Risk Society Sven Kesselring
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PART II FINDING TRACES IN MOBILITY PRACTICES 6
The Paradoxical Nature of Automobility Weert Canzler
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Job Mobility a