THE POLITICS OF PROXIMITY
Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures. This book focuses in particular on the political dimension of mobility and immobility, which plays a key role in establishing patterns of proximity in real and virtual co-presence. Proximity is seen as the result of choices, negotiations and practices carried out in different settings.
Drawing from different literature streams (Sociology, Organization Studies and Science and Technology Studies), this book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile work are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this book offers a cross-cultural and innovative theoretical framing of issues linked to mobility, through the link with immobility and proximity.
The Politics of Proximity
Mobility and Immobility in Practice
Edited by
GIUSEPPINA PELLEGRINO
University of Calabria, Italy
First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The politics of proximity : mobility and immobility in practice. -- (Transport and society)
1. Spatial behavior. 2. Sociology, Urban. 3. Industrial location--Social aspects.
I. Series II. Pellegrino, Giuseppina, 1974-304.2' 3-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pellegrino, Giuseppina, 1974-
The politics of proximity : mobility and immobility in practice / by Giuseppina Pellegrino.
p. cm. -- (Transport and society)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7766-6 (hardback) 1. Social mobility. 2. Transportation--Social aspects. 3. Space--Social aspects. 4. Time--Social aspects. I. Title.
HT612.P45 2011
305.5'13--dc22
2010045782
ISBN 9780754677666 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315554280 (ebk)
Contents
Giuseppina Pellegrino
Maria Cristina Marchetti
Kjell Engelbrekt
Carmelo Buscema
Chaim Noy
Eva Gerharz
Laura Gherardi
Matteo Colleoni
Paola Jirn
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Carmelo Buscema is an Assistant Professor in Political Sociology and member of the Doctoral School A.G. Frank in the University of Calabria, Italy. His most relevant interests of research concern cognitive capitalism, socio-political impact of ICTs, contemporary migrations, changing forms of citizenship and sovereignty. He carried out research and fieldwork activities in Spain, Mexico, United States, Ecuador and Italy. Amongst his most recent publications: La rappresentazione del mondo nella sfera generale. Tra spettacolo, vita quotidiana e nuova testualit, in Jedlowski, P. and Affuso, O. (eds) La sfera pubblica. Il concetto e i suoi luoghi. Cosenza: Pellegrini Editore, 2010, 170-98; La sineddoche migratoria. Braccia, non-persone, uomini e modello win-win, in Buscema, C. et al. (eds) Frontiere migratorie. Governance della mobilit e trasformazioni della cittadinanza. Roma: Aracne, 2009, 15-53; Tempi e spazi della rivolta. Epistemologia critica delle soggettivit (migranti) e dellantagonismo ai tempi della governance e della finanziarizzazione. Roma: Aracne, 2009.
Matteo Colleoni is a Researcher in Urban Sociology and Assistant Professor in Urban Policies at the University of Milan Bicocca. He is a member of IATUR (International Association Time Use Research), Mo.Ve (International, Non Governmental, Permanent, Observatory on Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Areas) and Inter-University Centre of Research on Urban Time. His main research topics are: mobility and accessibility, use of time, urban change and methods of social research. He is author of several essays on these topics: Tempi sociali. Teorie e strumenti di analisi. Roma: Carocci, 2004; Accessibility and Social Equity. A Study in the Metropolitan area of Milan, in Mo.Ve Final Technical Report, 2006, 37-56; La ricerca sociale sulla mobilit urbana. Metodo e risultati di indagine. Milano: Cortina, 2008; Per-correre la vita. Autonomia e mobilit delle persone disabili. Milano: Angeli, 2008 and La citt: bisogni, desideri, diritti. Dimensioni spazio-temporali dellesclusione urbana. Milano: Angeli, 2009.
Kjell Engelbrekt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, and Senior Lecturer at the Swedish National Defense College. He works in the interdisciplinary field of international relations and presently focuses on the political sociology of globalization and the security/ nationalism nexus. A recurrent interest is the intellectual history of European social science. Engelbrekts most recent journal articles are featured in The European Legacy (2009), the European Law Journal (2010) and the Encyclopedia of Political Science (forthcoming). In 2010 Routledge published Russia andEurope: Building Bridges, Digging Trenches which he co-edited and co-authored with Bertil Nygren.
Eva Gerharz is a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University in Germany. Currently, she acts as Junior Professor for Internationalisation and Development at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She studied sociology, political science and law and received her doctoral degree from the University of Bielefeld in 2007. Her main research interests are development sociology, activism and identity politics, globalization, transnational and translocal dynamics in South Asia. She is currently completing The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka and is co-editor of The Making of World Society: Perspectives from Transnational Research (2008, together with Remus Anghel Gabriel, Gilberto Rescher and Monika Salzbrunn).
Laura Gherardi is currently Researcher at the Faculty of Sociology of U.C. Milan. She obtained a joint PhD in Sociology from cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and U.C. (Milan) with a thesis, published in French La Mobilit Ambigu (Editions Universitaires Europennes 2010) and in Italian Mobilit Ambigua (Mondadori 2011) on the link between mobility and power. She has been Visiting Fellow at Cities programme (London School of Economics) and coauthor, with Mauro Magatti, of
