Methodologies of Mobility Ethnography and Experiment [Paperback]

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux?Methodologies of Mobilityspeaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

Roger Norumis a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, a researcher on the HERA project Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North, and co-convenor of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB).

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Introduction:Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries(
Noel B. Salazar,Alice Elliot, and Roger Norum

Chapter 1.Few are the Roads I Havent Travelled: Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic Expeditions
Susanne ?sterlund-P?tzsch

Chapter 2.Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on Wheels
(Hege H?yer Leivestad

Chapter 3.Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile Methods
Chris Vasantkumar

Chapter 4.From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europes Illegality Industry
Ruben Andersson

Chapter 5.Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in Tokyo
Jamie Coates

Chapter 6.Meeting a Friendl³D