This brief account of changing historical senses of mobility is supposed
to be indicative. I cannot hope to provide a comprehensive accounting
for all the different mobilities that have occurred in the world. Clearly
much has been missed. What this sketch does reveal, however, is the way
ideas about, and practices of, mobility have been historically variable. The
movement of people has been central to the construction of worldviews in
wildly different ways. It is to this process of the production of mobilities
that I now return.