1st Edition
Mobility and Identity in Europe A Mobile Ethnographic Approach
By Andre Novoa
Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others. Through a series of mobile ethnographic accounts with truck drivers, musicians and MEPs, the author lays out the complexities behind assumptions about mobility and European identity, providing a clear... Read more
List of Figures
Foreword by Peter Adey
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I: Mobility in/for Europe
2. The Optimistic 90s
3. The Turn of the Century
4. Doing Mobile Ethnography
Part II: On the Road in Europe
5. A Country on Wheels
6. Belonging to the Road
7. Speed and Smoothness
PART III: Questioning Euro-mobility
8. When did Mobility turn into Europeanness?
9. Requiem for a Mobile Dream
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Andre Novoa is an ERC researcher of The Colour of Labour project, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
