In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility practices can be adequately captured by relational dialecticism espoused by leading mobilities scholars. Rather than emerging as an opposition through dialectics, the relationship between (relative) mobility and containment may be characterized by overlapping hybridity and difference. This differential hybridity becomes apparent in two ways if mobility and containment are viewed as immanent gatherings of humans and nonhumans. First, the same entities may participate in gatherings of mobility and of containment, while producing different effects in each gathering. Here, nonhumans enter a gathering, and constitute (im)mobility practices, as actors that make history irreducibly differently from other actors that they may be entangled with. Second, modern technologies and amodern “institutions” may be indiscriminately drawn together in all gatherings.
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Gatherings of Mobility and Immobility
Itinerant “Criminal Tribes” and Their Containment by the Salvation Army in Colonial South India
Saurabh Arora
Tactics and strategies to survive ‘student engagement’, or joining the Soil Society and other stories
A panel discussion
Jacqui Close
University Press . O’Boyle , N. ( 2014 ) ‘ Front row friendships: Relational dialectics and identity negotiations by mature students at university ’, Communication Education 63 , no. 3 : 169 – 191 . 10.1080/03634523.2014.903333 Payne , G. ( 2017
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Green Out of the Blue, or How (Not) to Deal with Overfed Oceans
An Analytical Review of Coastal Eutrophication and Social Conflict
Alix Levain, Carole Barthélémy, Magalie Bourblanc, Jean-Marc Douguet, Agathe Euzen, and Yves Souchon
17 ( 4 ): 505 – 523 . Linton , Jamie , and Jessica Budds . 2014 . “ The Hydrosocial Cycle: Defining and Mobilizing a Relational-Dialectical Approach to Water .” Geoforum 57 : 170 – 180 . Longo , Stefano B. , Rebecca Clausen
In Environment and Society
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