ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by positioning tick movements in relation to the mobilities, mobilities justice and animal studies literatures. It addresses questions raised by the diversity by examining how vulnerabilities of humans and animals emerge through dynamic interactions between species that contribute to the production of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vulnerabilities. The chapter discusses relationships between people and animals that are always unequal. It examines issues of living and dying together in the everyday context of Northern Europe. The chapter focuses on TBE vulnerability by asking how people and other animals are affected by TBE virus (TBEv) mobility. While some parasites are welcomed components of our multispecies worlds, ticks are constructed as the ultimate other to human ways of being and discursively connected to disease, horror and infection. Mobility justice is always more-than-human in that it is rooted in ecological systems as well as being constituted with and through nonhuman agents.
