This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how John Urry's writing influenced their thinking and the course of their research and theorizing.

Foreword I Foreword II Part I Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Encountering John Urry: A Fragment of an Autobiography in Theory Chapter 3: Will There be an Urryism? The Dialectic of a Plural Thinker in Singular Times Chapter 4: Migration, the sociology of mobility and critical theory Chapter 5: Postdisciplinary encounters between Lancaster and the rest of the world Chapter 6: Following Part II Chapter 7: Proximity from a distance: virtual and imaginative mobility through the intimacies of life on screen Chapter 8: Postcards from a City Chapter 9: The Sensory Pleasures of the Disoriented Tourist Chapter 10: Some Personal Reflections on the Social Production of Multiple Natures Chapter 11: On a pilgrimage: A journey with John Urry Chapter 12: Remembering my special academic journey with John Urry Part III Chapter 13: Going places Chapter 14: John Urry's adventures in Brazil Chapter 15: After the End of Tourism Chapter 16: Tourism, Mobilities, Geopolitics, Events Chapter 17: Running away from, or with, the tourist gaze Chapter 18: It's About Time... Chapter 19: Ice-Fishing with John Urry - and Other Finnish Episodes of Ontological Importance Part IV Chapter 20: Mobilities without weight Chapter 21: Time - the Particular and the Universal Chapter 22: A long conversation on meetings, travels, and conversations with John Urry Chapter 23: Europe beyond Mobilities Chapter 24: Mobility - why actually? Chapter 25: How one book and one meeting shaped my aeromobilities research Chapter 26: Working materials: mobile objects, ideas and people Part V Chapter 27: Social Futures Chapter 28: The Future's Never Simple when its Complex: Social Forecasting with John Urry Chapter 29: From Mobilities to Mobile Lives and Beyond: The World According to John Urry Chapter 30: Liveable Data: a Low Carbon Science Fiction (SF) with John Urry Chapter 31: A planetary turn for the social sciences? Chapter 32: Mobility and Simplicity Afterword