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
Editorial
Stéphanie Ponsavady
uses the interrelation between aspiration and desperation as a powerful analytical framework to interrogate the relationships between mobility, immobility, migration, and sedentarization. By confronting these term-pairs, they also seek to deconstruct
Mobilizing Malian-Diasporic Identities
How Southern News Websites Facilitate Non-sedentarist Discourses on African Migration
Syntia Hasenöhrl
African Mobile Agents between Sedentarizing and Mobilizing Discourses As early as in 1988, Zygmunt Bauman predicted “the freedom to move, perpetually a scarce and unequally distributed commodity, fast becomes the main stratifying factor of our
Introduction
Interrogating Aspirations through Migratory Mobilities
Supurna Banerjee and Eva Gerharz
to migration and sedentarization. Interrogating aspirations through socially shared patterns of meaning that normalize and historicize migration, the contributions to this special section seek to connect micro- and macro- level analyses of
Conservation-Induced Resettlement
The Case of the Baka of Southeast Cameroon—A Variation on the Habitual Mobility–Immobility Nexus
Harrison Esam Awuh
, the Baka have been forced to settle in villages alongside the sedentary and dominant Bantu groups. 9 After their forced displacement, resettlement, and sedentarization, the Baka have fallen victim to marginalization by the state and other ethnic
Book Review
Book Review
Shelly Volsche
sedentarization and loss of livestock as a result of tensions related to land privatization. Chapter 2, “To hold on and belong to one's land,” opens by defining nutag (Mongolian; nyutag , Buryat). Roughly translated as “homeland,” the nutag anchors herders
Editorial
Stéphanie Ponsavady
African sedentarization in “Mobilizing Malian-Diasporic Identities: How Southern Online News Portals Facilitate Non-sedentarist Discourses on African Migration.” By exploring in great depth a selection of articles from a Malian-diasporic online news portal
Forced Emplacement
Flood Exposure and Contested Confinements, from the Colony to Climate Migration
Eric Hirsch
case studies that contextualize efforts to limit the mobility of populations exposed to acute climate impacts within deeper local histories of colonization, sedentarization, and diverse forms of state control of marginalized communities. Reproducing a
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Visualizing Vigilance in the Generalized Representation of the Nomad
Reflections on the Banjara Community in Rajasthan, India
Urmi Bhattacharyya
within restricted territories. Such measures developed on grounds of presumptions concerning a connection between the absence of sedentarized, lawful occupations among peripatetic communities and criminal dispositions. If proven “guilty,” the local
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Narratives of the Invisible
Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia
Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman
groups, mainly focusing on the Trio. The Trio and Wayana are swidden horticulturalists who, prior to contact and sedentarization, 2 lived in smaller, semi-nomadic cognatic groups of about 30 people, which usually settled alongside creeks and maintained a
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 92–109 (18 total)