Methodological Choices and Research Design

  • Emmanuel Ravalet
  • Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin
  • Gil Viry
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Abstract

Conducting empirical research on an emerging phenomenon that cannot be analysed with existing conceptual tools is a challenge. In the previous chapter, we saw that high-speed travel and communication technologies reshaped our relationship to time and space. These considerations have led to the idea that high mobility practices can be interpreted heuristically using the concept of reversibility. The questions then become: (1) to what degree are these practices reversible from spatial, temporal, relational and experiential viewpoints; (2) how can we develop an empirical research design to analyse high mobility through the lens of reversibility?

Keywords

High Mobility Methodological Choice Place Attachment Mobile Individual Spatial Mobility 
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  • Emmanuel Ravalet
  • Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin
  • Gil Viry

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