ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how particular ideas about mobility — be they from academics ruminating on transport patterns, or the transport planner designing the very same transport system — are assigned with certain significance and meanings. It examines how several metaphors and metaphysical frameworks have dominated this production: sedentarism and nomadism. The chapter explores in more detail how these kinds of meanings and representations have mattered for both academic research and the social worlds they examine. It takes sedentarism and nomadism in turn whilst tackling several of the figures and metaphors of mobility that exceed these initially simpler divisions. The chapter explores nomadic thinking and a particular set of ways of representing mobility. It discusses seem devoted to either a process of grasping and fixing holding down to immobilities and fixities or one of celebrating fluidity and dynamics.
