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On the Move

"By rigorously contrasting meaningful mobility with abstract movement, Tim Cresswell has enriched the study of this activity just as the scholarship on place did in contrast to space. His book is both pioneering and synthetic, a magisterial survey of the geography and history of mobility based on activities that define the modern period such as urbanism, capitalism, and imperialism as well as those which sought to regulate mobility on the bus lines, at airports, and at immigration centers."

Stephen Kern, author of "The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918"

The book fruitfully explores interconnections between the ‘symbolic’ and the ‘material’, which in my opinion makes it an innovative contribution to contemporary debates in the social sciences about movement and mobility (Social and Cultural Geography)

‘On the Move’ is a stunning contribution to mobility studies by an eminent human geographer. A dazzling tapestry of ideas and case studies, the work treats mobility as an intellectual category and practice rather than as ‘brute fact’. It discusses the historical references and manipulations of the idea, its tenaciousness, and its inflections and eruptions at various scales. The scope, clarity and learning of Cresswell’s book will make it required seminar reading in several fields of study. (Journal of Transport Geography)