ABSTRACT
Mobile life, supported by technological innovations, has been distinctive in European and Western lifestyles for the last two centuries or so. This started with the advent of steamship and railway connections and was later fostered by automobiles and aeroplanes. This chapter focuses on practices and representations of people in motion, based on changes in transportation technologies. The chapter is organized around topics related to artefacts and metaphors, the effects of speed, bodily affect and emotions, social interaction and performance, emerging from the railway journey, commercial aviation, cycling, automobility, transatlantic ship journeys and public transport in large cities. Finally, it focuses on the experience of walking in the context of such transformations.
