The mobilities paradigm : discourses and ideologies / edited by Marcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid and Christophe Mincke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From mobility to its ideology: when mobility becomes an imperative / Christophe Mincke -- Identity construction and mobility in pilgrims' and travelers' writings: contemporary reports about the Way of St. James and the Hippie Trail / Frank Neubert -- Instrumentalising the 'mobility argument': discursive patterns in the Romanian media / Camelia Beciu and Mirela Lazar -- The discursive accomplishment of rationalities in the automobility regime / Laura Bang Lindegaard -- Who does the move? affirmation or de-construction of the solitary mobile subject / Katharina Manderscheid -- Passengers without havens? discourses on the hypermobile subject and self-conceptions of frequent travellers / Marcel Endres -- 'Inappropriate' Europeans. On fear, space, and Roma mobility / Birgitta Frello -- For the power, against the power: the political discourses of high-speed rail in Europe, the United States and China / Ander Audikana and Zenhua Chen -- Small technologies and big systems / Thomas Birtchnell and John Urry -- From the urban planning discourse to a circulation dispositif - an epistemological approach to the mobility turn / Pauline Wolff.