Mobilities in Remote Places

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world’s most remote communities.

As mobilities around the world proliferate in countless forms, the meanings of remoteness undergo significant change. Places once considered impossibly distant have appeared to become closer, more accessible, and less distinct from global centers of geopolitical power. But instead of disappearing altogether, configurations of remoteness evolve, manifesting themselves through new possibilities, new challenges, and new insecurities. Drawing from a variety of case studies from around the globe, the contributors of the book examine remoteness as an outcome of evolving mobility constellations. Rather than defining remoteness as an absolute or objective time–distance condition, the book shows how remoteness is a practice, experience, and representation that is situated, relational, and emergent.

This collection of original and thought-provoking chapters will be of interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in mobilities, place, and human geography.

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. He has conducted research on BC Ferries, off-grid living, small island cultures and communities, natural heritage, everyday life, the cultural aspects of the human senses, food and culture, and sense of place. His latest research project examines natural heritage and wildness and has resulted in the books Inhabited (2021) and In the Name of Wild (2022) as well as the award-winning documentary film Inhabited. He is the author of Ferry Tales (Routledge, 2012) and Doing Public Ethnography (Routledge, 2018) and co-author of The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture (Routledge, 2011), Off the Grid (Routledge, 2014), and Wilderness (Routledge, 2016). He is also editor of The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities (Routledge, 2009), Non-Representational Methodologies (Routledge, 2015), and The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Body/Embodiment (Routledge, 2006), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Culture (Routledge, 2009), and Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015).