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Bounded mobilities : ethnographic perspectives on social hierarchies and global inequalities /

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolida...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gutekunst, Miriam, Hackl, Andreas, Leoncini, Sabina, Schwarz, Julia Sophia, Götz, Irene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016.
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis.
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  • Cover Bounded Mobilities; Contents ; Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project ; Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems ; I. Introduction ; Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction ; Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle-Ground? ; II. Identities and Boundaries.
  • From one Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank III. Imagination and Time ; (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece.
  • Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century IV. Gendered Im/mobilities ; From the "Periphery" to the "Centre": Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men.