“I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still
Abstract This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies...
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crspringernat:10.1007/s12124-021-09660-6 2023-05-15T18:29:16+02:00 “I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still Pedersen, Oliver Clifford Zittoun, Tania nccr – on the move Université de Neuchâtel 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09660-6 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12124-021-09660-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12124-021-09660-6/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science ISSN 1932-4502 1936-3567 Philosophy Applied Psychology Anthropology Communication Cultural Studies Social Psychology journal-article 2021 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09660-6 2022-01-04T07:29:24Z Abstract This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobility studies, we propose to explore the entanglement of symbolic mobility (a form of imagination) and various forms of geographical (im)mobility. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and hours of conversation, we present the case study of Einar’s life on his island. We follow the sociogenetic development of the island, and the expansion and contraction of the imaginative horizon over time. On this background, we then retrace the life of Einar and show how, within this transforming context, his imagination developed thanks to resources he could use from the mobility of technologies, ideas, and other people. Interestingly, at different bifurcation points, his symbolic mobility almost led him to move away but, at another point, helped him to refuse geographical mobility. Hence, he was always symbolically mobile while staying. We finally propose directions for generalising from this case study, and implications for cultural psychology and for mobility and migration studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Suðuroy Suðuroy Springer Nature (via Crossref) Suðuroy ENVELOPE(-6.830,-6.830,61.518,61.518) Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 56 3 755 778 |
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Abstract This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobility studies, we propose to explore the entanglement of symbolic mobility (a form of imagination) and various forms of geographical (im)mobility. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and hours of conversation, we present the case study of Einar’s life on his island. We follow the sociogenetic development of the island, and the expansion and contraction of the imaginative horizon over time. On this background, we then retrace the life of Einar and show how, within this transforming context, his imagination developed thanks to resources he could use from the mobility of technologies, ideas, and other people. Interestingly, at different bifurcation points, his symbolic mobility almost led him to move away but, at another point, helped him to refuse geographical mobility. Hence, he was always symbolically mobile while staying. We finally propose directions for generalising from this case study, and implications for cultural psychology and for mobility and migration studies. |
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“I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still |
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“I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still |
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