ABSTRACT
We simply cannot ignore that the world is moving and, maybe, the world is moving a bit more than it did before. We might even say that mobility is ubiquitous; it is something we do and experience almost all of the time. For Nigel Thrift (2006) even space itself is characterized by this mobility and movement, ‘every space is in constant motion,’ he writes. Perhaps mobility is not something ‘very new’ as Anthony Giddens (Giddens and Hutton 2000: 1) comments on globalization, but certainly something ‘new’ is happening in the world. Aiwah Ong (2006) writes how mobilities have ‘become a new code word for grasping the global’ and the new and extensive ways in which we live. Without mobility we could not live. Without mobility we could not get to work or to the nearest source of food, neither could we stay healthy and fit. We could not make and sustain social relationships and we could not travel to far off or nearby destinations.
