mobilities

Editors: Professor Kevin Hannam, University of Sunderland, UK; Dr Mimi Sheller, Swarthmore College, USA; Professor John Urry, Lancaster University, UK

Mobilities encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.

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