The British Journal of Sociology
Volume 51 Issue No. 1 January/March 2000
pages l85-203
Abstract
This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: 'gamekeeping', networks, fluids, scapes, flows, complexity and iteration. The article concludes by suggesting that a 'global civil society' might constitute the social base of a sociology of mobilities as we move into the twentieth first century.
Keywords: Mobility, network, society, scape flow
John Urry
Dept. of Sociology
University of Lancaster