TY - JOUR

T1 - Les systèmes de la mobilité.

AU - Urry, John

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - This paper discusses mobilities from the viewpoint of the systems that structure, organise and permit multiple mobilities. This is considered both historically and in the current century. The paper shows that in the twenty-first century, interdependent digitised systems of mobility are at the core of contemporary societies. It also shows more generally that the study of mobilities cannot but be central to deciphering the principal contours of life in a world that combines exceptional freedom (at least for some on some occasions) and exceptional system dependence. Methods and theories need to be ever on the move to keep up with new systems of individualised scheduling and of system structuring and monitoring.

AB - This paper discusses mobilities from the viewpoint of the systems that structure, organise and permit multiple mobilities. This is considered both historically and in the current century. The paper shows that in the twenty-first century, interdependent digitised systems of mobility are at the core of contemporary societies. It also shows more generally that the study of mobilities cannot but be central to deciphering the principal contours of life in a world that combines exceptional freedom (at least for some on some occasions) and exceptional system dependence. Methods and theories need to be ever on the move to keep up with new systems of individualised scheduling and of system structuring and monitoring.

KW - Mobilities

KW - System

KW - Presence

KW - Absence.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 1

SP - 23

EP - 35

JO - Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie

JF - Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie

SN - 0008-0276

IS - 118

ER -