ABSTRACT
To situate the transnational movements of students across global eduscapes, this chapter proposes a shift from a focus on activity systems to “mobility systems.” This framework attends to the politics of mobility: who moves, when they move, how they move, and to what effect. The mobile literacies approach articulates challenges and offers an alternative to structuralist and container models that have often undergirded academic and disciplinary literacies scholarship. To ground the analysis, this chapter focuses on a case study of a Chinese international student and the ways that she mobilizes an array of human and non-human actors into her everyday academic literacy practices. Together these actors form part of a complex literacy sponsorscape mediating the formation of her academic and disciplinary identities and literate activities.
