ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities are unfolded. The mobile risk society where environmental, economic, and social risks are increasingly crucial to the social structures of societies forms the starting point for understanding the mobile everyday life. As the traditions of premodern society are no longer available, people are required to constantly reflect upon which kind of life to lead and what practices to maintain. To understand how these practices are embedded and argued as structural stories, the focus is on “individuals-in-relations” as that which constitutes certain rationalities about mobilities practices. Thus changing practices lies in changing the larger stories to guide the everyday practice of “individuals-in-relations” by questioning or re-conceptualizing the “normality” or “taken-for-granted naturalness” of specific practices. This approach has been developed in an ongoing research process where the theoretical and the empirical are constantly informing and developing each other. The book uses examples from previous research projects and a short discussion of the different methodologies facilitating this research is presented here.
