ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the insights of the current mobility turn in the social sciences to bear on these connections between mobilities and gender. It covers a wide range of issues and highlights the complexity of mobility. The book argues that people should regard social/spatial/existential mobility as a distinct capability, which will have important consequences for research concerning justice and gender in a number of research areas. It uses the writings of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon to explore the recent works on racialised and gendered mobility by anti-racist feminist Canadian scholar, Sherene Razack. The book brings a refreshingly new outlook on the intersection of motherhood, risk and everyday mobilities. It shows how mobility is experienced, reflected upon and created in the construction of togetherness and belonging in feminist online networks.
