The Politics of Scaling, Timing and Embodying

Rethinking the ‘New Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID7921030
AuthorsA M Fortier (0000-0001-7870-4399, Lancaster University, corresponding author), Anne‐Marie Fortier
Year2006
Volume1
Issue3
Pages313-331
Publication date2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450100600915992
OpenAlexW2038795593
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited48

This paper explores ways in which we can fruitfully analyse and theorize ‘New Europe’ through migration, in so far as migration is an integral part of the way the world is imagined, and as such impacts on how individuals, communities, nations or multi/international formations such as the European Union imagine themselves and their (co)inhabitants. The article discusses three theoretical strands that relate to the forces of spatiality (scaling), temporality (timing and histories) and corporeality (embodying and ‘the European people’). These must be read as interwoven and impacting on each other in varying ways that are not linear, coherent or permanent. By bridging critical migration studies with mobilities studies, this essay calls for a reconsideration of the fluidity, accessibility and desirability of the assumed mobile world, while it also thinks about migration in relation to the ways in which ‘mobility’ has been variously established as a universal ‘right’

Economic geography · Economics · Epistemology · European union · Geography · Mobilities · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy

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