(Changing Mobilities)
by Maria Alice Nogueira (Editor)
By
introducing the new concept of alternative (im)mobilities, this
collection draws attention to a different approach to mobility
practices. In doing so, this ground-breaking volume explores a range of
issues related related to (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic,
transport and social practices, and media and urban tourism.
Designed
and organized in a legally or illegally way, alternative (im)mobilities
are examples of those daily practices of displacement of people,
objects, and information, which mobilize a multidisciplinary framework
of urbanization, shedding light on important and long-standing issues of
inequality and the lack of recognition of diversity in economics,
social and culture urban life. This volume opens up a new set of
research questions related to the complex ways in which informal actors
cope with their everyday life experience, regarding dwelling, commuting,
working, caring of vulnerable people, health issues, access to
information, among other mobility practices, besides the lack of
essential – and infrastructural - public services.
This
volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in
geography and the social sciences interested in mobilities, transport,
communication, tourism, mobility justice and inequality, public decision
making and health studies.
