Brazilian Mobilities (Changing Mobilities)

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of mobility studies developed in Brazil. It builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging countries from the Global South.

Addressing such different areas as tourism, urbanization, media studies, social inequalities, marketing and mega-events, transport and technology, among others, the contributors use the new mobilities paradigm, or NMP (Sheller & Urry, 2006) as a starting point to reflect about the social changes experienced in the country and they also engage with newer literature on mobilities, including work done by Brazilian and Latin-American authors depending on the subject of each individual chapter.

Illustrating to scholars the uniqueness and complexity of the Brazilian social-political and economic context, the book was organized in order to be a representative sample of the studies carried out in Brazil, as well as to contribute to other academic investigations on (im)mobilities and different social realities in emerging countries.

Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira is a lecturer at Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA, Brazil). She is also National Coordinator of Social Communications Undergraduate Courses–Creative Economies Department at the same institution. Her research focuses on the interconnection of (im)mobility, communication, advertising and marketing.

Camila Maria dos Santos Moraes is a Tourism and Sociology Professor at Rio de Janeiro University (UNIRIO), where she coordinates the TurisData-RJ: Data base on Rio de Janeiro Tourism Reality and the Observatory of Favela Tourism.