With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities builds upon the recent interest in social surveillance, widening the theme to encompass a broad scale of questions, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and metaphysics.

Contents: Introduction: in between standstill and hypermobility - introductory remarks to a broader discourse, Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager; Part I: The beauty of speed or the discovery of slowness - why do we need to rethink mobility? Sigurd Bergmann; Mobility, freedom, and public space, Mimi Sheller; Automobility and the driving force of warfare: from public safety to national security, Jeremy Packer; Stranded mobilities, human disasters: the interaction of mobility and social exclusion in crisis circumstances, Margaret Grieco and Julian Hine; Gendered mobility: a case study of non-Western immigrant women of Norway, Tanu Priya Uteng; Mobility as stress regulation: a challenge to dialogue in planning?, Tore Sager; Understanding mobility holistically: the case of Hurricane Katrina, Tim Cresswell. Part II: Existential homelessness - placelessness and nostalgia in the age of mobility, Juhani Pallasmaa; From sacred place to an existential dimension of mobility, Peter Nynÿs; The phenomenon of mobility at the Frankfurt international airport - challenges from a theological perspective, Kerstin Söderblom; Religion, mobility and conflict, Elizabeth Pritchard; The desire for speed and the rhythm of the earth, Michael Northcott; The ontology of mobility, morality, and transport planning, Ullrich Zeitler; Walk the talk - mobility, climate justice and the churches, Jutta Steigerwald; Ecological approaches to mobile machines and environmental ethics, David Kronlid; Index.