Abstract
This article discusses a central paradox behind mobile geography – mobile phones are ubiquitous and bodily intimate technologies, yet the public seems particularly fearful of any spatial proximity to mobile phone masts. Such fears are generally understood in terms of ‘risk perception’, an irrational consequence of media hype, faulty cognitive processing, or communication failure. This merely psychologises what is a deeply spatial paradox. Tbe routine ‘nomadic intimacy’ of mobile phone use establishes place as a mere backdrop to being always ‘on-call’, too absorbed In the ‘busy-ness’ of everyday life to notice what is close at hand. In contrast, what we term ‘place intimacy’ becomes evident when public protest over the unwanted intrusion of phone masts helps refashion familiar places as meaningful, safe and worth protecting.
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