Mobile Methods

How people, capital, objects, images and information move, are prevented from moving or become immobile is consequential, given that multi-modal and intersecting (im)mobilities configure social and material realities. It is critical for societies to understand everyday practices and their cumulative systemic effects. To this end, one of the core commitments of mobile methods is to move with subjects of inquiry, often as participant observers. Mobile methods thus allow researchers to establish ‘some form of literal, physical presence with an explicit logic of association or connection’ (Marcus, 1998).