Methodologies of Mobility

Alice Elliot is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK.Roger Norum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, a researcher on the HERA project Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North, and co-convenor of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB).Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven and Founder of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network.

"A treasury of rich insights into methods on the move that will inspire a new generation of mobility researchers in our burgeoning field." Nick van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries
Noel B. Salazar, Alice Elliot, and Roger Norum Chapter 1. ‘Few are the Roads I Haven’t Travelled’: Mobility as Method in Early Finland-Swedish Ethnographic ExpeditionsSusanne Österlund-PötzschChapter 2. Inventorying Mobility: Methodology on WheelsHege Høyer LeivestadChapter 3. Becoming, There? In Pursuit of Mobile MethodsChris VasantkumarChapter 4. From Radar Systems to Rickety Boats: Borderline Ethnography in Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’Ruben AnderssonChapter 5. Idleness as Method: Hairdressers and Chinese Urban Mobility in TokyoJamie CoatesChapter 6. Meeting a Friend of a Friend: Snowballing with Mr. Hansen in NaplesHans LuchtChapter 7. ‘Being There Where?’ Designing Digital-Visual Methods for Moving With/In IranShireen WaltonChapter 8. Fixating a Fluid Field: Photography as Anthropology in Migration ResearchChristian ViumAfterword: Im/mobile Method/ologiesSimone AbramIndex