Mobility is often associated with flow and freedom; nonetheless, it is also about power and
government. While mobility studies have shown how interpersonal social relations are …

What is the relation between mobility and freedom? It has often been assumed that mobility
equals freedom, and that freedom requires mobility. Certainly constraints on mobility are …

The 'mobilities turn'in human geography and cognate disciplines has a natural
methodological predisposition towards privileging mobile subjects, or the structures …

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a
working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in …

This paper seeks to advance the already productive encounter between governmentality-
oriented research and migration studies. It makes three arguments. First, the article calls for …

Social and territorial structures form intricate relations that transcend a social stratification or
spatial focus. Territorial features and geographic displacements are structuring principles for …

What can geography offer to a 'new mobilities paradigm'(Sheller and Urry 2006)? The very
question suggests that geography needs to embrace mobility. Sociology, anthropology and …

There is no doubt about it: the question of mobilities is a rising issue within the social
sciences. The cosmopolitanization of modern societies is unthinkable without intense …

This essay is structured by a central idea: under liberal governmentality mobility is translated
into a discourse of freedom of circulation, which reframes freedom as moving without being …

Mobility as a key modern phenomenon can be seen in multiple ways and this article raises
the question of how mobility becomes visible and real through diverse ways of seeing …