Everyday Mobile Belonging

Kirsty Finn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Mark Holton is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, UK.

• Series Editor PrefaceIntroduction: A Mobility-centred Approach to Localised Experiences and Forms of BelongingPart I: Higher Education in the 21st Century: (New) Theoretical Directions for Understanding Student Experiences1. Patterns, Policy, Discourse: Transformations in Higher Education in the 21st Century2. Making the Familiar Strange (Again): Established Ways of Knowing Higher Education Student Im/mobility and its Challenges3. Dismantling Dualisms: The Mobilities Turn in Social Theory4. A Mobilities Manifesto: New Directions for Higher Education Research and TheorisingPart II: Mobile Methodologies: Researching Student Experiences5. Mobile Methods: New Tools for Researching Belonging and Everyday Life6. Methodological Notes From Each of the StudiesPart III: Empirical Explorations: Students on the Move in the UK7. Regional Mobilities: Students on the Move8. Meaning Making and Everyday ‘Local’ Mobilities9. Incongruous Mobilities: Mature Students’ Experiences of the University Campus10. Post-student Mobilities: Transitions Away From UniversityConclusionReferencesIndex

A compelling and refreshingly innovative account…Finn and Holton carefully elucidate and marshal their framework of “everyday mobile belonging” across a series of richly textured ethnographic chapters that reveal how a diverse range of contemporary UK higher education students move, stay, interact with space and negotiate belonging in a landscape shaped by the massification and marketization of 21st-century higher education. Alongside this exceptional ethnography, Finn and Holton also mount a nuanced critical scoping of higher education as both a sector and a scholarly field, and engage in thought-provoking ways with questions of method in mobilities research that are in themselves a crucial contribution.