"Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities. As mobilities around the world proliferate in countless forms, the meanings of remoteness undergo significant change. Places once considered impossibly distant have appeared to become closer, more accessible, and less distinct from global centres of geopolitical power. But instead of disappearing altogether,configurations of remoteness evolve, manifesting themselves through new possibilities, new challenges, and new insecurities. Drawing from a variety of case studies from around the globe, the book's contributors examine remoteness as an outcome of evolving mobility constellations. Rather that defining remoteness as an absolute or objective time-distance condition, the book shows how remoteness is a practice, experience, and representation that is situated, relational, and emergent. This collection of original and thought-provoking chapters will be of interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in mobilities, place, and human geography"--
Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world’s most remote communities.
As mobilities around the world proliferate in countless forms, the meanings of remoteness undergo significant change. Places once considered impossibly distant have appeared to become closer, more accessible, and less distinct from global centers of geopolitical power. But instead of disappearing altogether, configurations of remoteness evolve, manifesting themselves through new possibilities, new challenges, and new insecurities. Drawing from a variety of case studies from around the globe, the contributors of the book examine remoteness as an outcome of evolving mobility constellations. Rather than defining remoteness as an absolute or objective time–distance condition, the book shows how remoteness is a practice, experience, and representation that is situated, relational, and emergent.
This collection of original and thought-provoking chapters will be of interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in mobilities, place, and human geography.
Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world’s most remote communities.
1. Mobilities in remote places: introduction Part 1: Rhythms
2. Making
remoteness through pandemic im/mobilities on the Isle of Coll, Scotland
3.
Lavorare dal Sud: return to Southern Italy and remote work in pandemic times
4. Cards, memories and places: exploring remoteness and place in rural
Denmark Part 2: Routes
5. From trade corridor to dead end? Eastern
Afghanistan as a remote borderland
6. Bigsy vs the Mice: tiny airports flying
in the face of a compromised fate
7. Mobilities on the margins: the becoming
of Melrakkaslétta as a tourist destination Part 3: Speeds
8. When the road
came: remoteness, mobility and social change among youth in Kaasa, Ghana
9.
Where media technology is not fully available: sound-based means of transport
as local media Part 4: Frictions
10. The immobilities of non-automobile
residents of rural Spain
11. Moving Patagonia: contemporary rural dwelling
through estancias, puestos and puesteros Part 5: Feels
12. Slowness, sense of
community, and changing perceptions of mobility in Tajikistans Bartang
Valley
13. Ancient paths, new forms of movement in the Peruvian Andes Part 6:
Motives
14. The lure of immobility: living and coworking in rural France
15.
Mobilizing and practising remoteness in Icelands Westfjords
16. The
groundhog trail: the geographies of habitat and daily life for mobile workers
at the Romaine River hydroelectric site
Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. He has conducted research on BC Ferries, off-grid living, small island cultures and communities, natural heritage, everyday life, the cultural aspects of the human senses, food and culture, and sense of place. His latest research project examines natural heritage and wildness and has resulted in the books Inhabited (2021) and In the Name of Wild (2022) as well as the award-winning documentary film Inhabited. He is the author of Ferry Tales (Routledge, 2012) and Doing Public Ethnography (Routledge, 2018) and co-author of The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture (Routledge, 2011), Off the Grid (Routledge, 2014), and Wilderness (Routledge, 2016). He is also editor of The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities (Routledge, 2009), Non-Representational Methodologies (Routledge, 2015), and The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Body/Embodiment (Routledge, 2006), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Culture (Routledge, 2009), and Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015).
