ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on everyday life mobilities and our movement between the activities of which our lives consist. It offers a critical view on how mobilities maintain dichotomies, as well as the multitude of unintended consequences of mobility. The book focuses specifically on mobilities relation to, and the tension between, freedom and unfreedom. It is placed within everyday mobility research where the cultural and social implications and potentials of and in mobility are the pivotal. In the book the idea of human security has had a huge influence, although it is not directly visible in the text. Materialities have an obvious significance in the study of mobility, while at the same time clouding other important aspects. This has been made visible through the development in transportation research where parts of it have moved towards mobility research.