ABSTRACT
In some ways the experience was life changing. At least, it marked an individual turning point and – symbolically speaking – the “departure from Reims.” John Urry loved to travel, even more he loved to meet and talk to people and see the academic people that he was working with grow, develop, and mature. He had an amazing ability to connect with people, intellectually but also personally. There was a tendency to give in to the pressure and to conduct the project more towards the sociological mainstream. In the end it was one of John’s short remarks after one of the meetings, which helped to become more secure in keeping track towards an interdisciplinary concept of mobilities. In many ways John’s formulation from his 2000 book that the “development of various networks and flows undermines endogenous social structures” could have been more or less in the same way a Beckian formulation.
