Amazon description
"The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities" presents a series of ethnographic studies, focusing on the local cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the everyday sense of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them. Compensating for the excess of theory and criticism based on the notion of 'hypermobilities', this book sheds light on the nuanced differences and idiosyncrasies of mobility, concentrating on alternative forms, with a view to rediscovering meanings and lifestyles marked by movement and immobility. With an international team of scholars presenting original empirical case studies from around the world, this book explores the complex, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of movement. Avoiding sweeping generalizations on the deeply connected and readily mobile nature of society as a whole, this volume sheds light on the diversity of mobility modes. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this volume will be of interest, to sociologists, geographers and scholars of human mobility, communication and culture.