ABSTRACT

This chapter explores how in composing a host of social processes and practices mobilities are far more than simple, conscious and calculative acts. Juxtaposing a range of conceptualizations of mobility from several different theoretical positions, mobility was understood as a multi-sensual activity which is not always consciously thought or representational. The chapter examines few interrelated approaches that have sought to understand mobility in ways that complicate and question the relation between mobility, styles of thinking and ways of representing mobilities. It takes a journey along several of the dimensions and examples of which the practice and performance of mobility have been composed. The chapter explores how emotions and affects rise and surge between bodies. Humanist geographer David Seamon stands out as an important interlocutor in the role of bodily practices and mobilities in everyday life, battling against approaches drawn from behavouralism and cognitive science.