1st Edition

Pandemic (Im)mobilities

Edited By Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield Copyright 2025
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements. As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or... Read more

Introduction: Pandemic (Im)mobilities

Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller and David Tyfield

 

1. Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis

Noel B. Salazar

 

2. Anxious immobilities: an ethnography of coping with contagion (Covid-19) in Macau

Dennis Zuev Kevin Hannam

 

3. Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world

Tim Cresswell

 

4. Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities

Ole B. Jensen

 

5. What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Sven Kesselring

 

6. Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics

Weiqiang Lin and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

 

7. De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic

Charles Heller

 

8. Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions

Andrea Pase, Laura Lo Presti, Tania Rossetto, and Giada Peterle

 

Biography

Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.

Kevin Hannam is Professor in the Faculty of Business at City University of Macau.

Mimi Sheller is Dean of the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

David Tyfield is Professor of Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy at Lancaster University.