Bounded Mobilities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities (Culture and Social Practice) - Softcover

Miriam Gutekunst; Andreas Hackl; Sabina Leoncini; Julia Sophia Schwarz; Irene Götz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837631230 ISBN 13: 9783837631234

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility. This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.

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About the Author

Miriam Gutekunstis a cultural anthropologist based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, where she is completing her PhD on the governing of migration through marriage. Andreas Hackl is based at the School for Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology. Sabina Leoncini (Dr.) obtained her PhD in 2014 at Florence University, working on mixed education in Jaffa, and her MA in Anthropology in 2008 with a thesis on the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank. Julia Sophia Schwarzfinished her studies of cultural and social science and works at the DJI (German Youth Institute) in Munich on the topic of family, poverty and gender. Irene Götz (Prof. Dr.) is a full professor of European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837631230
• ISBN 13: 9783837631234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296