Tracing Mobilities

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality rationality equality and globality. Taking its cue from this concept this book presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility and ends with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life. The book opens with a study of the social changes unique to the second age of modernity with contributions from Ulrich Beck John Urry Wolfgang Bonss and Sven Kesselring. It continues with a discussion of the implications of these changes for sociological research. Authors such as Vincent Kaufmann Weert Canzler Norbert Schneider Beate Collet Ruth Limmer and Gerlinde Vogl focus on a series of field examinations both qualitative and quantitative of emerging mobilities. The book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation.