ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how marriages of mobility and perception can help us see and think differently about literacy practices and methods of observation and engagement in literacy studies. It seeks to forward conversations of spatiality and mobility in literacy studies by engaging not only discursive representations of these concepts, but also by offering frames and methods for attending to and participating in material and embodied movements within and through complex systems. To attend to the complexity of associations made and remade within and across places, a literacy ethnographer must develop an epistemological and ontological sense of places and subjectivities in perpetual movement. Frictions enabling movement toward ethnographic knowledge are especially pronounced in multi-sited, mobile ethnography, as shared movements within and across places and times involve a perpetual transformation of subjectivities and relations of power.
