Within geographical theory and philosophy it has come to signify meaningful segments
of space—locations imbued with meaning and power. A place is a
center of meaning—we become attached to it, we fight over it and exclude
people from it—we experience it. The same cannot be said of location. Why
geographers have not subjected mobility to the same scrutiny as the more
allegedly fixed and bounded categories of space, time, territory, and landscape
is curious. I have frequently heard commentators at conferences talk of
the rise of mobility in the modern world as the “end of geography.” I presume
they do not mean the discipline, but even so, such a statement is thought
provoking. What is not “geographical” (both in real world and disciplinary
terms) about things and people on the move