Download or read book The Politics of Proximity written by Giuseppina Pellegrino and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile work - are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this book offers a cross-cultural and innovative theoretical framing of issues linked to mobility, through the link with immobility and proximity.