Movement and Connectivity

Kjersti Larsen, Jan Simonsen, Ada Engebrigtsen

Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of ±mobility? for anthropological thought and theorization. The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments, and the evolution of communities and networks. It shows how the social and spatial complexity of mobility increases with time and how socio-political and economic changes affect values, ideas, and practices in local life-worlds.00The case studies examines mobility from below and as processes constitutive of society and identity ? processes through which mobility is perceived and experienced as part of life. How do people see their own local life-world and its (un)connectedness to other...