Everyday Mobile Belonging

A compelling and refreshingly innovative accountFinn and Holton carefully elucidate and marshal their framework of everyday mobile belonging across a series of richly textured ethnographic chapters that reveal how a diverse range of contemporary UK higher education students move, stay, interact with space and negotiate belonging in a landscape shaped by the massification and marketization of 21st-century higher education. Alongside this exceptional ethnography, Finn and Holton also mount a nuanced critical scoping of higher education as both a sector and a scholarly field, and engage in thought-provoking ways with questions of method in mobilities research that are in themselves a crucial contribution. * Shanthi Robertson, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia * An important contribution to existing insight through comprehensively drawing together understandings from the theorising of mobilities with the particular everyday lived experience of being a higher education student today. Chapters draw out the ways in which this experience is pivotally spatially and temporally contingent upon the specifics of space, place and locale, with a nuance that recognises the emergent risks and challenges for young people relating to wider changes in the contemporary educational and socio-economic landscape. * Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education, University of Sussex, UK *

Kirsty Finn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Mark Holton is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Series Editor Preface Introduction: A Mobility-centred Approach to Localised Experiences and Forms of Belonging Part I: Higher Education in the 21st Century: (New) Theoretical Directions for Understanding Student Experiences 1. Patterns, Policy, Discourse: Transformations in Higher Education in the 21st Century 2. Making the Familiar Strange (Again): Established Ways of Knowing Higher Education Student Im/mobility and its Challenges 3. Dismantling Dualisms: The Mobilities Turn in Social Theory 4. A Mobilities Manifesto: New Directions for Higher Education Research and Theorising Part II: Mobile Methodologies: Researching Student Experiences 5. Mobile Methods: New Tools for Researching Belonging and Everyday Life 6. Methodological Notes From Each of the Studies Part III: Empirical Explorations: Students on the Move in the UK 7. Regional Mobilities: Students on the Move 8. Meaning Making and Everyday Local Mobilities 9. Incongruous Mobilities: Mature Students Experiences of the University Campus 10. Post-student Mobilities: Transitions Away From University Conclusion References Index