Abstract
Debates around “mobilities” have emerged in multiple forms as a disciplinary and interdisciplinary concern. Within human geography it has achieved significant importance alongside other key geographical frames of reference or concepts, such as place and scale. However, the emergence of mobilities has quite a convoluted history of turns and returns, and alternative histories. There have also been fractured discussions around mobility between important subfields within geography. Most crucially, as a set of approaches to the study of movement by human and nonhuman things, mobilities can be seen to have animated key geographical concepts, transformed the focus of much empirical work on movement and nonmovement, and augmented and rethought research methods. Most recently the notion of “mobility justice” has proven a galvanizing approach towards questions of social, racial, and environmental mobility (in)justices.