Andre Novoa, "Mobility and Identity in Europe: A Mobile Ethnographic Approach"
English | ISBN: 1138242209 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1138242209 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others. Through a series of mobile ethnographic accounts with truck drivers, musicians and MEPs, the author lays out the complexities behind assumptions about mobility and European identity, providing a clear contrast between individuals for whom this process certainly is true and others who, in spite of their high levels of mobility, do not consider themselves European, or for whom the notion of being European is simply insignificant. Ultimately, as this book shows, the enactment of a European identity, through practices of mobility, has more to do with social class than with a mobile condition
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