Mobility regimes and domestication of space

Abstract

This paper aims to trace a connection between mobility, space and biopolitics. Mobility will be analysed as a geographical practice that brings together spaces altering their orderings and the subjects that inhabit them. An analytical scenery will be outlined in order to think later on the specificity of concrete practices of mobility. A scenery that is developed in a progressive way attending, first, to a biopolitical ontology of habitability that, related to mobility, demands an analysis of the way habits are reconfigured when travel-displacement begins and of the way hospitality-hostility is arranged in the contact zone; second, it will be argued that modernity develops an ethos through which domestication of spaces and mobility is accomplished; and lastly, it will be analysed the way that ethos of modernity is reconfigured through gubernmentalities that link neoliberal-neocolonial-security dimensions and that becomes expressed in those key figures of present mobility: tourists and migrants.