ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of mobility in the formation of an international political sociology and examine its turn towards social theory and approaches from sociology. It also explores how in embracing sociology, mobility or mobilities have undergone considerable empirical and conceptual elaboration. The chapter focuses on the key spaces where an international political sociology has deployed investigations of mobility. The development of an international political sociology saw a more expansive embrace of sociology, social and cultural theory, realizing that “sociological analysis has been shaped by an implicit acknowledgment that society must be subordinate to state”. Attentive to architectures and material arrangements of power, touch and effect, Mark Salter has devoted a good deal of work to the intensity of political relations produced through mobile sites and locations, like airports and border zones. What is more, research in this area has attended to the mobile practices of those who inhabit and co-produce the commingling of space and practice.
