Tracing Mobilities : Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Tracing mobility - an introduction, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Part I Tracing Mobility Concepts and Theory: Moving on the mobility turn, John Urry; Mobility and the cosmopolitan perspective, Ulrich Beck; Between social and spatial mobilities: the issue of social fluidity, Vincent Kaufmann and Bertrand Montulet; The wahlverwandschaft of modernity and mobility, Stephan Rammler; The mobile risk society, Sven Kesselring. Part II Finding Traces in Mobility Practices: The paradoxical nature of automobility, Weert Canzler; Job mobility and living arrangements, Norbert F. Schneider and Ruth Limmer; Working away from home: juggling private and professional lives, Estelle Bonnet, Beate Collet and Beatrice Maurines; Networks, scapes and flows - mobility pioneers between 1st and 2nd modernity, Sven Kesselring and Gerlinde Vogl; Gateways for research - an outlook, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Index.