Introduction: The Humanities in the Age of High Mobility
DOI.
Special Issue
By.
Inseop Shin, Jinhyoung Lee
Pages.
1-5
Date.
27. Jan. 2022
Abstract
In their essay, “High Mobility as Social Phenomena,” Gil Viry and Vincent Kaufmann used the term “high mobility” to signify that “work-related forms of long-distance travel” have intensified in most industrialised countries (1). It distinctly expressed an essential aspect of lifestyle emerging significantly in the 21st century, the routinisation of geographically distant movement for work amongst other reasons. In the age of “planetary urbanisation”(Brenner 162), the term goes far beyond the western world and the area of work-related travels they focused on, as described appositely in the opening paragraph of the seminal book,Mobilities (2007), by one of the pioneers of mobility studies, John Urry:
