ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to untangle what are very knotty issues of mobilities and politics, before exploring how these themes play out in some of the dominant areas of citizenship, disability politics and others. It considers how mobilities offer up a political space wherein more direct and violent kinds of politics have been played out from protest and direct action to political violence. Mobility lies at the centre of political ideologies of citizenship, statehood, government and law within liberalism and its derivative neoliberalism. One of the most obvious and well-studied aspects of the politics of mobility is concerned with citizenship. James C. Scott shows how the streets and spaces of insurrectionary politics can be used to support different sorts of mobilities in order to quash and disrupt rebellion. Scott explores Baron Haussmann's famous reorganization of Paris in the late nineteenth century.
