Reading Response 11: Mobilities
The main topic in this paper is the mobilities and immobilities. The author draws to our attention the ability of individuals and various factors involved in the study of anthropology to move from one place to another. Mobility is all about the ability to move from one place to the other without hindrance from any other factors. Immobility is the opposite of mobility, which is the inability to move from one place to the other with a lot of ease (Hannam, 2006). In the free world today, researchers, resources, students, and factors are free to move from one place to another. This is the scenario that the author tries to create to help people understand that the mobility of people in the field of study is vital.
Personally, I think the learning process would be so difficult and complicated if individuals were not from to move from one place to another. Mobility creates a globalization that was already discussed. Earlier, we saw the importance and value of the ability of a community to integrate and globalize to become as one universe. I also think that immobility is essential to some extent to allow resources and people to concentrate in a particular place once. However, as the author forwards it, immobility is a factor that draws researchers back and thwarts their entire process. I agree with the way the author presents his points clearly and comprehensively that can be well-understood. Mobility and immobility are explained in simple words to be the ability to move from one place to another or the inability to move from one place to another, respectively.