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Mobility Mimi Sheller Drexel University abstract This article offers an overview of the field of mobilities research, tracing its theoretical antecedents and contrasting it to theories of globalization, nomadism and flow. Mobilities theory places an unprecedented emphasis on (im) Mobility , moorings, dwelling and stillness as much as movement, speed, or liquidity. The article then outlines key themes and research areas within the field, including Mobility systems, Mobility capital and movement-space; and lastly presents innovations in mobile methodologies and directions for future research. keywords (im) Mobility u infrastructure u mobile methods u motility u remediation Over the past decade a new approach to the study of begins to occur in new ways across a wide range of mobilities has been emerging across the social sci- mobile devices and smart' environments, there is a ences, involving research on the combined move- new convergence between physical movement of peo- ments of people, objects and information in all of ple, vehicles and things; information production, stor- their complex rel

3 Sheller Mobility debates over globalization, cosmopolitanism, post - colonialism and emerging forms of urbanism, sur - veillance and global governance of various kinds of

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