Abstract

Places are key to our understanding of human mobilities and the other way around. Places and mobilities exist in a co-constitutive relationship, making it difficult to disentangle one from the other. Research across disciplines needs to pay more sustained attention to how places are mobile and to how mobilities are emplaced. It is crucial to undertake both endeavours simultaneously. Privileging the former, as happens in globalization studies, leads to de-essentialized conceptualizations of place, questioning the traditional taken-for-granted bond between peoples and territories, but it also creates a disconnect between high-level theory and lived experiences. Favouring the latter, on the contrary, as happens in more micro-scale and phenomenological approaches, leads to embodied understandings of human movement, but often overlooks the influential local-to-global power relations and structures that are implicated in local(ized) practices and processes. Based on a critical reading of existing scholarship and drawing on ethnographic and emic understandings of mobility-related issues in various contexts around the globe, this article develops conceptual as well as methodological insights about the multiple ways in which places are mobile and mobilities are emplaced. This includes anthropological reflections on displacement and immobilization. I end by offering suggestions for future transdisciplinary research on the place-mobility nexus.

摘要

地点是我们理解人类流动性的关键，反之亦然。地点和流动性存在于一种共同构成的关系中，因此很难将两者分开。跨学科的研究需要更加持续地关注场所如何流动以及流动性如何安置。同时进行这两项努力至关重要。正如全球化研究中所发生的那样，优先考虑前者会导致对地方的非本质化概念化，质疑人民和领土之间传统上理所当然的联系，但它也造成了高层理论和生活经验之间的脱节。相反，正如在更微观尺度和现象学方法中发生的那样，支持后者会导致对人类运动的具体理解，但往往忽视了当地（化）实践和流程中所涉及的有影响力的地方到全球的权力关系和结构。基于对现有学术成果的批判性阅读，并借鉴全球不同背景下对流动性相关问题的人种学和主流理解，本文提出了关于场所流动和流动性安置的多种方式的概念和方法论见解。这包括对流离失所和固定的人类学反思。最后，我为未来关于地点与流动性关系的跨学科研究提供建议。基于对现有学术成果的批判性阅读，并借鉴全球不同背景下对流动性相关问题的人种学和主流理解，本文提出了关于场所流动和流动性安置的多种方式的概念和方法论见解。这包括对流离失所和固定的人类学反思。最后，我为未来关于地点与流动性关系的跨学科研究提供建议。基于对现有学术成果的批判性阅读，并借鉴全球不同背景下对流动性相关问题的人种学和主流理解，本文提出了关于场所流动和流动性安置的多种方式的概念和方法论见解。这包括对流离失所和固定的人类学反思。最后，我为未来关于地点与流动性关系的跨学科研究提供建议。