ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part argues that points to how people might historicise mobile socialities more generally and ensure that people do not become fixated on contemporaneous articulations of its technologies, practices and manifestations. It examines socialities of practice with a particular focus on stuckedness and the ways in which this is in productive tension with mobile imaginaries. The part describes the example of Kenyan migrant fisherpeople descendants, drawing on rich ethnographic material produced during fieldwork conducted in the Kenyan Rift Valley during 2019–2020. It explores how the concept of mobile socialities lends itself to boundary work that surfaces the tensions between an imagined mobility and present day fixities. The part addresses the broader question of the degree to which a particular discipline might lead the way intellectually and theoretically in relation to mobile socialities.
