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This article argues for the importance of understanding questions of mobility in both ritual and cosmological senses. In the rural Andes, people negotiate their spatial situatedness through reciprocal means that they see as central for the fertility of the land and animals as well as for the well‐being of the community. The article discusses how this relational understanding of the powerful surroundings is reproduced or changed as people move to an urban context. It explores the extent to which the relationship to land and the animated surroundings is important for the understanding of movement and mobility as such: for example, as actualizing sources of danger as well as prosperity. Drawing on the works of Lefebvre and de Certeau, the article suggests a reformulation of the distinction between place and space in order to explore how people engage in making places out of spaces in processes of mobility. Mobility is thus presented as a process of place‐making. Résumé Cet article souligne l'importance qu'il y a à comprendre les questions de mobilité au sens rituel aussi bien que cosmologique. Dans les Andes rurales, on négocie sa situation dans l'espace par des moyens réciproques, perçus comme essentiels à la fertilité de la terre et des animaux et au bien‐être de la communauté. L'auteure discute la manière dont cette compréhension relationnelle d'un environnement puissant est reproduite ou modifiée lorsque les gens passent à un contexte urbain. Elle explore l'importance de la relation à la terre et à l'environnement animé pour la compréhension du mouvement et de la mobilité en tant que tels, par exemple comme sources de danger et de prospérité en constante actualisation. Sur la base des travaux de Lefebvre et de Certeau , l'article propose une reformulation de la distinction entre lieu et espace, afin d'explorer la façon dont les gens transforment des espaces en lieux dans le cadre de processus de mobilité. La mobilité est ainsi présentée comme un processus de création de lieux.

While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about post-carbon futures. This article discusses how the prefigurative transition framework reshapes the industrialization narrative, seeking to bridge the anthropology of energy and theories of performance. By paying attention to how ‘proclaimed transition’ is envisioned, narrated, and performed, the article explores the ways in which transition in Svalbard is spectacularly dramatized by the dismantling of the Svea coal mines, accompanied by the ‘returning to nature’ of the area. The article analyzes this ‘returning’ as a social drama of our anthropogenic times, demonstrating how landscape and nature are made key entities in performances of post-carbon utopia(s).

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