Metamorfosis de la movilidad, procesos de socialización y segurbanidad

Abstract

The recent characterization of our time as an "era of perpetual motion" involves the rise of mobility as a new paradigm. The consequent promotion of the "mobile life" emerging as an object of attention leads to multiple fields of research: whether the evolution of mobility in relation to the challenges and demands of sustainable development, either transnational communities on the basis of the diversification of migrant mobilities, either the right to mobility, given the existence of inequalities in access to travel, and so on. All issues that, for example, arouse our current urban culture, are subject to the redefinition of their potential, terms and conditions. In turn, such display of flows and networks that characterize the mobility transforms affected disciplines, especially sociology, perhaps because of lower standards watching its discourse. There's not a lack of intellectual rigour, but lucid incorporation of changes, because it is accepted that mobilization undermines borders, grades and articulation of the terminology, and the consequent need to coin metaphors, terms and unpublished explanations that come to retrieve the original elements of the formation of sociology itself, such as travel literature, or even cross-fertilization with "artistic" activities such as photography.