Tracing Mobilities

Weert Canzler is from the Department of Innovation and Organization at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany. Vincent Kaufmann is Professor of Urban Sociology and Analysis of Mobility at the Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Sven Kesselring is at the Technische Universität München, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Tracing mobility - an introduction, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Part I Tracing Mobility Concepts and Theory: Moving on the mobility turn, John Urry; Mobility and the cosmopolitan perspective, Ulrich Beck; Between social and spatial mobilities: the issue of social fluidity, Vincent Kaufmann and Bertrand Montulet; The wahlverwandschaft of modernity and mobility, Stephan Rammler; The mobile risk society, Sven Kesselring. Part II Finding Traces in Mobility Practices: The paradoxical nature of automobility, Weert Canzler; Job mobility and living arrangements, Norbert F. Schneider and Ruth Limmer; Working away from home: juggling private and professional lives, Estelle Bonnet, Beate Collet and Béatrice Maurines; Networks, scapes and flows - mobility pioneers between 1st and 2nd modernity, Sven Kesselring and Gerlinde Vogl; Gateways for research - an outlook, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Index.

'Bridging the new mobilities paradigm associated with John Urry and the reflexive modernization theory associated with Ulrich Beck, this book offers an important theoretical synthesis of emerging transnational and cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Accompanied by innovative empirical case studies of the intersections of automobility, work and home mobility in Europe, it will serve as an indispensable guide to the vibrant new field of mobilities research.' Mimi Sheller, Swarthmore College, USA and Lancaster University, UK 'Tracing Mobilities traces mobilities in two ways: it usefully presents the works of the contributors so far, and it advances our knowledge of mobilities full-force into new directions. The varied disciplinary and country affiliations of the contributors provides for a diversified tackling of the complex four-edged frontier: mobilities, being in motion, mobility potentiality and its materialization.' Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa, Israel 'Overall I found this to be a very commendable and insightful book. It is well edited and has a clearly defined structure and cohesion in terms of narrative.' Irish Geography