ABSTRACT

This chapter suggests that the link between feminist theory and mobility can be understood by exploring the dynamic relationship between physical, geographical movement and mobility as an intellectual and theoretical position. It considers geographical movement of subjects as well as the social, cultural, political, and, crucially, theoretical mobility within which movement takes place to understand contemporary mobility. The chapter argues that, in the light of recent trends toward the internationalisation of academia and the precarious position academic feminism takes within this trend, the idea of 'mobile theories' is of particular importance in the context of transnational feminist networks. It rests on cyber-ethnographic research of the International Women' University 'Technology and Culture' 2000 and its participants. The chapter offers empirical examples which focuses on some research findings, online questionnaires and email exchanges in particular, in order to explore how the members of this particular feminist network 'make sense' of the interplay between theory, feminism, and mobility.