Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings
TL;DR: Mobility has become an evocative keyword for the twenty-first century and a powerful discourse that creates its own effects and contexts as mentioned in this paper, and the concept of mobilities encompasses both the large-scale...
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About: This article is published in Mobilities. The article was published on 20 Aug 2006. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Mobilities.
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