Mobility is one of the basic principles of modernity. This book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation. It presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility, concluding with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life.

Contents: Preface; Tracing mobility - an introduction, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Part I Tracing Mobility Concepts and Theory: Moving on the mobility turn, John Urry; Mobility and the cosmopolitan perspective, Ulrich Beck; Between social and spatial mobilities: the issue of social fluidity, Vincent Kaufmann and Bertrand Montulet; The wahlverwandschaft of modernity and mobility, Stephan Rammler; The mobile risk society, Sven Kesselring. Part II Finding Traces in Mobility Practices: The paradoxical nature of automobility, Weert Canzler; Job mobility and living arrangements, Norbert F. Schneider and Ruth Limmer; Working away from home: juggling private and professional lives, Estelle Bonnet, Beate Collet and Béatrice Maurines; Networks, scapes and flows - mobility pioneers between 1st and 2nd modernity, Sven Kesselring and Gerlinde Vogl; Gateways for research - an outlook, Weert Canzler, Vincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring; Index.

Weert Canzler is from the Department of Innovation and Organization at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany. Vincent Kaufmann is Professor of Urban Sociology and Analysis of Mobility at the Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Sven Kesselring is at the Technische Universitÿt Mÿnchen, Germany.