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Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power book cover

1st Edition

Regimes of Mobility Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power

Edited By Noel Salazar, Nina Glick Schiller Copyright 2014
162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical lens. This book builds on, as well as critiques, past and present studies of mobility. In so doing, it challenges conceptual orientations built on binaries of... Read more

1. Introduction: Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe Nina Glick Schiller and Noel B. Salazar  2. The Great Departure: Rethinking National(ist) Common Sense Dace Dzenovska  3. Tibetan Peregri-nations: Mobility, Incommensurable Nationalisms and (Un)belonging Athwart the Himalayas Chris Vasantkumar  4. International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon Michaela Pelican  5. Cultivating Hustlers: The Agrarian Ethos of Soninke Migration Paolo Gaibazzi  6. Development Mobilities: Identity and Authority in an Angolan Development Programme Rebecca Warne Peters  7. Jembe Hero: West African Drummers, Global Mobility and Cosmopolitanism as Status Pascal Gaudette  8. Moving Subjects, Stagnant Paradigms: Can the ‘Mobilities Paradigm’ Transcend Methodological Nationalism? Barak Kalir

Biography

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Nina Glick Schiller is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture at the University of Manchester, UK.

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