Table of Contents

Section One: Genealogies, Philosophies, Approaches Section Two: Qualities Section Three: Spaces, Systems, Infrastructures Section Four: Materialities Section Five: Subjects Section Six: Events Section Seven: Methodologies

About the Author

Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. His research interests are located at the intersections of space, mobility and security and he is the author of several books including Mobility (Routledge, 2009).


David Bissell is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His research examines how different forms of travel, from international air travel to urban commuting, are generating new forms of subjectivity, new political formations and new sensory configurations of contemporary life. He is co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (Routledge, 2011).


Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Mobilities at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. With John Urry and Mimi Sheller he is a founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities. He is the co-author of the recent books Understanding Tourism and Tourism and India. He is currently collaborating on a research project on walking, art and landscape.


Peter Merriman is Reader in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University. He is author of Mobility, Space and Culture (2012) and Driving Spaces (2007), and co-edited Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects (2011) with Tim Cresswell. He is an Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, and on the editorial board of Mobilities.


Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the author or editor of 7 books, including the forthcoming Aluminum Dreams: Lightness, Speed, Modernity (MIT Press, 2014). She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and Associate Editor of Transfers.

Reviews

"The interdisciplinary field of mobility studies has expanded exponentially over the last years as the scholars included in this invaluable handbook have transformed the discussion of technology, transportation, communication, geography, and travel in the post-colonial context of war, globalization, and urbanization. This text offers a creative yet practical approach to the dynamic subjects and objects of a world of moving parts to provide insights into the terms and concepts of mobilities today." - Caren Kaplan, Professor, American Studies, UC Davis"...this book provides an all-encompassing collection intended to provide encyclopædic coverage of mobility, its effects, and conceptual dilemmas for the social system. One of the strengths of the collection is the discussion about the extent to which mobilities may create a new cosmology for lay people and social scientists."– Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Department of Economics, University of Palermo, published in Annals of Tourism Research