New Books Podcast: Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality (Sabina Lawreniuk, Laurie Parsons)

Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality (Oxford UP, 2020) by Sabia Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history. After years of staggering economic growth and a political breakthrough in 2013, disappointment set in as the fruits of this growth failed to reach many Cambodians and the party of the country’s long-time prime minister, Hun Sen, returned to its authoritarian crackdown. But the scope of this book is much wider than the array of settings where Lawreniuk and Parsons investigate the experiences, narratives, and consequences of inequality. Instead, their research speaks to larger global articulations, such as the limits of inequality, as a concept, to account for contexts outside of the Global North, the rise of right-wing and anti-immigration political movements, and the pernicious mobility of poverty.

Sabina Lawreniuk is Nottingham Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Nottingham

Laurie Parsons is Lecturer in Human Geography and British Academy Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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