Pacing Mobilities

Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of action, a process of actively modulating or responding to how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.

Introduction: Why and How Does the Pacing of Mobilities Matter?
Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar
Chapter 1. The Ambiguous Role of 'Pacemakers' in the Paradoxical Quest for a Proper Pace of Life
Noel B. Salazar
Chapter 2. Finding a Satisfying Pace: Navigating the Social Contingencies of Sport Mobilities
Noel Dyck and Hans K. Hognestad
Chapter 3. Rhythm and Pace: The Diurnal Aspects of Leisure Mobilities on the UK Canals and Rivers
Maarja Kaaristo
Chapter 4. 'Time to Hit the Road': Understanding Living on the Road through Shifts in Thinking about Time
Célia Forget
Chapter 5. 'We Must Stay for the Exams!' Pacing Mobilities among Lifestyle Migrant Families in Goa, India
Mari Korpela
Chapter 6. European Corporate Migrants in Chinese Metropolises and the Pacing of Family Mobility
Brigitte Suter
Chapter 7. Leave/Remain: Brexit, Emotions and the Pacing of Mobility among the French in London
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Chapter 8. 'In a Couple of Years (Or Three or Four), I'll Stop Travelling So Much': The Challenges of Modulating Skilled Work Mobility
Vered Amit
Epilogue: Pacing Mobilized
Karen Fog Olwig
Index