Pacing Mobilities

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author or editor of numerous books including most recently Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality with Nigel Rapport (Pluto Press, 2012) and Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (Berghahn Books, 2015).

“The comprehensive discussion developed in each chapter benefits from rich ethnographic accounts and diverse theoretical frameworks. Thus, it provides insights into mobilities that exceed the particular scope of the volume. This volume could benefit anybody interested in studying and understanding mobilities more broadly. It draws relations between the sociocultural context within which mobility occurs, the desires and struggles of those who undertake it, and how the overall spatio-temporal mobility experience may affect those who undertake it.” • Dr Chrysi Kyratsou, Irish Journal of Anthropology“I rate this book very highly. It consolidates research around a topic (pace) that has been floating around in the literature for a while, but that hasn’t been theorized and studied in a systematic manner yet.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross“This is an excellent book … adding a much-needed intervention in the literature on mobilities in insisting on the ways in which temporal dimensions of movement work in the planning and execution of the journeys composing middling migrants’ lives.” • Caroline Knowles, Goldsmith’s, University of London

• Introduction: Why and How Does the Pacing of Mobilities Matter?Vered Amit and Noel B. SalazarChapter 1. The Ambiguous Role of 'Pacemakers' in the Paradoxical Quest for a Proper Pace of LifeNoel B. SalazarChapter 2. Finding a Satisfying Pace: Navigating the Social Contingencies of Sport MobilitiesNoel Dyck and Hans K. HognestadChapter 3. Rhythm and Pace: The Diurnal Aspects of Leisure Mobilities on the UK Canals and RiversMaarja KaaristoChapter 4. ‘Time to Hit the Road’: Understanding Living on the Road through Shifts in Thinking about TimeCélia ForgetChapter 5. ‘We Must Stay for the Exams!’ Pacing Mobilities among Lifestyle Migrant Families in Goa, IndiaMari KorpelaChapter 6. European Corporate Migrants in Chinese Metropolises and the Pacing of Family MobilityBrigitte SuterChapter 7. Leave/Remain: Brexit, Emotions and the Pacing of Mobility among the French in LondonDeborah Reed-DanahayChapter 8. ‘In a Couple of Years (Or Three or Four), I’ll Stop Travelling So Much’: The Challenges of Modulating Skilled Work MobilityVered AmitEpilogue: Pacing MobilizedKaren Fog OlwigIndex