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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “The comprehensive discussion developed in each chapter benefits from rich ethnographic accounts and diverse theoretical frameworks. Thus, it provides insights into mobilities that exceed the particular scope of the volume. This volume could benefit anybody interested in studying and understanding mobilities more broadly. It draws relations between the sociocultural context within which mobility occurs, the desires and struggles of those who undertake it, and how the overall spatio-temporal mobility experience may affect those who undertake it.” • Irish Journal of Anthropology
“I rate this book very highly. It consolidates research around a topic (pace) that has been floating around in the literature for a while, but that hasn’t been theorized and studied in a systematic manner yet.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross
“This is an excellent book … adding a much-needed intervention in the literature on mobilities in insisting on the ways in which temporal dimensions of movement work in the planning and execution of the journeys composing middling migrants’ lives.” • Caroline Knowles, Goldsmith’s, University of London
Table of Contents 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
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