ABSTRACT

Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies, and the politics of mobility. The book introduces the concept of networked urban mobilities and lays out a research agenda for the future of mobility studies. Each of the contributors represents a specific approach in the field and each article provides cutting-edge theoretical and conceptual reflections on the topic. Mobility here is understood as a heterogeneous phenomenon that shapes modern societies and cities by emerging in different dimensions: as physical, social, cultural, and digital mobilities.

chapter 2|17 pages

Globalizing Networked Urbanism

Entanglements of Elite and Subaltern Mobilities

chapter 3|14 pages

Mobile ‘Pseudonymous Strangers’

How Chance Encounters Constitute Sociality in Digitally Augmented and Location-Aware Urban Public Places

chapter 4|9 pages

The Worlds of Offshoring

chapter 6|28 pages

Vertical Mobilities

Confronting the Politics of Elevators in Tall Buildings and Ultra-Deep Mining

chapter 7|16 pages

Mobilities Futures

chapter 8|16 pages

Performing or Deconstructing the Mobile Subject?

Linking Mobility Concepts, Research Designs, and Methods