Mobile sociology1

2010/01/01 by John Urry · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Religious Tourism and Spaces #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Travel Writing and Literature

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01249.x

Abstract

This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: 'gamekeeping', networks, fluids, scapes, flows, complexity and iteration. The article concludes by suggesting that a 'global civil society' might constitute the social base of a sociology of mobilities as we move into the twenty-first century.

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