Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging

In this article I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. zoom on everyday practices small municipality located Austrian Nock mountains region which is at once characterized by history cross-border mobilities pronounced support for nativist ideas parties. shed light experiences perspectives village inhabitants who detest liberal ideals cosmopolitan forms belonging, instead insisting tropes indigeneity attachment (Heimatverbundenheit). argue that rather than writing such sentiments off as backward, traditionalist ways relating to world, social scientists need pay attention them. They make visible deepening chasm between scholarly imaginaries mobile, identities people’s lived an increasingly fragmented global political arena. Taking antagonisms order seriously, aim critically examine movement, cosmopolitanism pervading modern thought.