Mobile Methodologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ben Fincham, Mark McGuinness, Lesley Murray

      Pages 1-10

3. Driving the Mobile

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Contextualising and Mobilising Research

      • Lesley Murray

      Pages 13-24

   3. Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity

      • Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Lise Drewes Nielsen

      Pages 25-42

   4. In-vivo Sampling of Naive Drivers: Benefits, Practicalities and Ethical Considerations

      • Ian Walker

      Pages 43-52

   5. Narrating Mobile Methodologies: Active and Passive Empiricisms

      • David Bissell

      Pages 53-68

4. Steering the Mobile

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Liverpool Musicscapes: Music Performance, Movement and the Built Urban Environment

      • Brett Lashua, Sara Cohen

      Pages 71-84

   3. Vim de Bahia pra lhe ver: Multiple Movements in the Capoeira Batizado

      • Neil Stephens, Sara Delamont

      Pages 85-102

   4. Being There/Seeing There: Recording and Analysing Life in the Car

      • Eric Laurier

      Pages 103-117

   5. Writing Mobility: Australia’s Working Holiday Programme

      • Nick Clarke

      Pages 118-129

   6. Catching a Glimpse: The Value of Video in Evoking, Understanding and Representing the Practice of Cycling

      • Katrina Brown, Justin Spinney

      Pages 130-151

   7. Have Backpack Will Travel: Auto/biography as a Mobile Methodology

      • Gayle Letherby

      Pages 152-168

5. Conclusions: Mobilising Methodologies

   1. Conclusions: Mobilising Methodologies

      • Mark McGuinness, Ben Fincham, Lesley Murray

      Pages 169-173

6. Back Matter

   Pages 174-193

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How do we research and represent mobile experiences? This book, the first to examine mobile methods, explores the movement of bodies through space, examining perceived limitations and considering methodological responses, technologies and strategies designed to inform our understanding of people's experience of movement through space.

• Design
• environment
• methodology
• methods
• mobility

• University of Sussex, UK

  Ben Fincham

• Bath Spa University, UK

  Mark McGuinness

• University of Brighton, UK

  Lesley Murray

DAVID BISSELL Lecturer in Sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia KATRINA BROWN Cultural Geographer working in the field of landscape and rural governance at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, UK NICK CLARKE Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, UK SARA COHEN Professor in the School of Music and Director of the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, UK SARA DELAMONT Reader in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK LISE DREWES NIELSEN member of the research unit, Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies at the Department for Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University, Denmark BEN FINCHAM Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK MALENE FREUDENDAL-PEDERSEN Knowledge Analyst at The Danish Architecture Centre and member of the research unit, Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies at the Department for Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University, Denmark KATRINE HARTMANN-PETERSEN member of the research unit, Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies at the Department for Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University, Denmark ERIC LAURIER Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK BRETT LASHUA Research Associate at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Popular Music, UK GAYLE LETHERBY Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics and Law at the University of Plymouth, UK MARK MCGUINNESS Head of Geography at Bath Spa University, UK LESLEY MURRAY Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK JUSTIN SPINNEY Research Fellow in the multidisciplinary research group on Lifestyles, Values and the Environment (RESOLVE) at the University of Surrey, UK NEIL STEPHENS Research Associate based at the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Cardiff University, UK IAN WALKER Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath, UK

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