Methodologies of Mobility: Ethnography and Experiment

✍ Scribed by Alice Elliot (editor); Roger Norum (editor); Noel B. Salazar (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Worlds in Motion; 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries
CHAPTER 1 ‘Few Are the Roads I Haven’t Travelled’ Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic Expeditions
CHAPTER 2 Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on Wheels
CHAPTER 3 Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile Methods
CHAPTER 4 From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’
CHAPTER 5 Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in Tokyo
CHAPTER 6 Meeting a Friend of a Friend: Snowballing with Mr Hansen in Naples
CHAPTER 7 ‘Being There Where?’ Designing Digital-Visual Methods for Moving With/In Iran
CHAPTER 8 Fixating a Fluid Field: Photography as Anthropology in Migration Research
AFTERWORD Im/mobile Method/ ologies
Index