ABSTRACT
Scholarly debates have long grappled with the question of what mobility might be doing to place. Although some thinkers have been concerned that mobility is antithetical to place, this chapter explains how mobility and place are inextricably linked. The chapter summarises some of the most significant academic literatures that have explored the relationship between place and mobility, and it appraises these ideas through fieldwork from a research project that explores the lives of mobile workers in Australia whose lives routinely take them away from their places of home for days or weeks at a time. Arguing that place is ultimately contingent on all kinds of different mobilities, the chapter explains how the field of mobility studies encourages a nuanced consideration of place that is attentive to relative and contingent fluidities and fixities.
