Introduction
Noel B. Salazar

Part I: Conceptual Hooks

Introduction
Vered Amit and Jamie Coates

Chapter 1. Relationality
Karen Fog Olwig and Karsten Paerregaard

Chapter 2. (dis)Location
Deborah Reed-Danahay

Chapter 3. Temporality
Vered Amit and Maarja Kaaristo

Chapter 4. Im/Mobility
Diana Mata-Codesal and Paolo Gaibazzi

Chapter 5. Imaginaries
Jamie Coates and Sertaç Sehlikoglu

Chapter 6. Technics
Julie Y. Chu

Chapter 7. Bodies
Thomas F. Carter

Chapter 8. Engagement
Sverre Molland

Part II: Structuring Mobilities

Introduction
Maarja Kaaristo and Johan Lindquist

Chapter 9. Borders
Josiah M. Heyman and Juan Zhang

Chapter 10. Infrastructures
Dimitris Dalakoglou, Giorgos Poulimenakos and Elena Mamoulaki

Chapter 11. Political Economy
Anne-Christine Trémon

Chapter 12. Rural and Urban
Erik Harms and Minhua Ling

Chapter 13. Race and Gender
Miriam Gutekunst and Ieva Puzo

Chapter 14. Brokering, Smuggling and Trafficking
Johan Lindquist and Shahram Khosravi

Chapter 15. Environment and Climate
Camelia Dewan and Alessandro Rippa

Chapter 16. Digital Media
Christian S. Ritter and Emily H. C. Chua

Part III: Moving People

Introduction
Natalia Bloch and Fabiola Mancinelli

Chapter 17. Nomads
Fabiola Mancinelli and Selcen Küçüküstel

Chapter 18. Pilgrims
Viola Thimm

Chapter 19. Labour Migrants
André Dumans Guedes and Marek Pawlak

Chapter 20. Forcibly Displaced People
Natalia Bloch and Andreas Hackl

Chapter 21. Tourists
Susan Frohlick

Chapter 22. Lifestyle Mobilities
Mari Korpela and Anna Horolets

Chapter 23. Educational Mobilities
Daniel Malet Calvo and Leonardo Francisco de Azevedo

Chapter 24. Quotidian Mobilities
Soledad Martínez Rodríguez and Dennis Zuev

Part IV: Moving Entities

Introduction
Flavia Cangià and Hege Høyer Leivestad

Chapter 25. Objects
Mahmoud Keshavarz

Chapter 26. Plants
Karin Ahlberg and Bengt G. Karlsson

Chapter 27. Animals
Sarah Green

Chapter 28. Food
Tiana Bakić Hayden and Heather Paxson

Chapter 29. Capital
Kiran Jayaram

Chapter 30. Services
Ivan V. Small and Kevin S. Y. Tan

Chapter 31. Devices
Anna Lisa Ramella and Steffen Köhn

Chapter 32. Art
Roger Sansi and Matteo Guidi

Bibliography
Index

Handbook of the Anthropology of Mobilities

Noel B. Salazar

480 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-83695-560-3 Hb Not Yet Published (November 2026)

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This handbook offers a precious landmark for the anthropological study of mobility. It proposes for the first time an integrative account of definitional, structural and empirical issues, studied all around the world, and captured by the concept of mobility as it has recently developed in the social sciences. Tania Zittoun, Catholic University of Lille, Institute of psychology and education, FLSH

It provides an impressive, comprehensive overview, both in depth and width, on mobility and immobility from an anthropological perspective. Brigitte Suter, Malmö University

Things are constantly moving; animals, plants, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information and ideas have mobilities that are dynamic and complex. The Anthropological Handbook of Mobility takes stock of the dispersed body of anthropological work on mobilities, as both an object of study and an analytical lens. From an anthropological point of view, this guide provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to mobility studies for students, scholars, and anyone else wanting to know more about the implications of mobility.

Noel B. Salazar is Full Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is editor of the Worlds in Motion (Berghahn) book series, co-editor of Pacing Mobilities (2020), Methodologies of Mobility (2017), Keywords of Mobility (2016), and Regimes of Mobility (2014), and author of Momentous Mobilities (2018), Envisioning Eden (2010) and numerous peer-reviewedarticles and book chapters on mobility and travel. Salazar is past secretary-general of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), past president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and founder ofthe EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob). In 2013, he was elected as member of the Young Academy of Belgium.

Subject: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC050000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Social Classes & Economic Disparity; EDU000000 EDUCATION/General

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Handbook of the Anthropology of Mobilities

Noel B. Salazar

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