Description
Despite calls for attentiveness to movement and mobile subjects in global politics, the primary and constitutive role of movement is often obscured. This paper develops the argument that a focus on mobile subjects often reproduces static notions of global politics by making this movement appear to be epiphenomenal to a fixed and ahistoric background which it traverses. By analysing three categories by which movement is made sense of I show that the study of movement may paradoxically function to obscure its significance. Attending to the figures of ‘tourist’, ‘soldier’ and ‘explorer’ this paper explores how the political significance of movement is elided through categorialisation.
