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Travel Theory and Meaningful Mobility

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Travel to World War I Gallipoli battlefield by Australians and Turks is outlined as a strategic case study to theorise the power of mobility to shape social memory and national identity. Sociology in recent decades has increasingly appreciated travel as a basis of addressing methodological nationalism and incorporating transnational forces. The Mobilities paradigm led by John Urry is outlined as representative of this intellectual turn. It is argued that Mobilities is hampered by a reductionist understanding of culture. In contrast, a cultural sociology is forwarded whereby the traveller is an embodiment of the witness, with mobility affording new carriers and custodians of social memory as well as spatial and temporal environments that result in their symbolic elevation.

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West, B. (2022). Travel Theory and Meaningful Mobility. In: Finding Gallipoli. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98879-1_1

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