ABSTRACT

John Urry’s work on mobility provides a means of interpreting societies from the myriad movements and flows that traverse them. More specifically, it allows us to start with that which moves and to go towards what is inert; in other words, Urry’s work invites us to use mobilities to describe social issues, even in the most static institutions. Ultimately, John Urry’s work on mobility has found large echoes in the post-structuralist currents of sociology. The work and ideas of John Urry have been decisive for designing the research on mobility in Europe, and particularly for analyzing the practices and values conveyed by the EU for mobility in a global perspective. Mobility research in the French-speaking world is strongly marked by the idea that mobility is a social and spatial phenomenon that involves both a change of role or position and movement in space.