Analysing Individual Experiences of Immobility
摘要
This chapter examines immobilities as experienced at both individual and collective levels, along with the factors influencing related choices or constraints. Utilizing the technique of microstories within a specific case study, it investigates the individual causes and effects of immobility in relation to local accessibility conditions. This approach deepens the understanding of immobility presented in the theoretical framework of Chap. 2 , demonstrating how mobility and immobility can be perceived as reversible, chosen, or constrained, depending on the interplay between contextual factors and personal experiences. Additionally, the chapter identifies a set of so-defined reversibility factors—shaped by public policies, community collaboration, and individual perceptions of access to immaterial goods—that may facilitate a transition from constrained conditions to chosen, reversible mobility and immobility. Consequently, the concepts of mobility and immobility enablement are introduced to highlight the potential roles of public policies and community action in activating these reversibility factors.