Bear with me, it all makes sense in the end. While the triple mobility framework has enabled me to identify the neo-nomad, it appears to be useful to visualize a taxonomy of mobile individuals. Spatial demand varies according to the individual, and according to its position on the axes (Physical/Mental/Digital) of mobility. Find the graphic below (dots represent a type of neo-nomad):

As I found out, this isn’t the first time mobility is “dissected” into axes. As Lévi-Strauss wrote in Tristes Tropiques:

We generally conceive travel as a movement in space. This says little. A journey inscribes itself simultaneously within space, within time and within the social hierarchy. Every impression is only definable when relating it jointly to these three axes, and because space has three dimensions, five would be needed for getting a suitable representation of travel. [...] At the same time it moves thousands kilometers away, travel causes to climb or go down the social ladder. It moves and downgrades — for better or for worse — and the color and the taste of places cannot be dissociated from the rank always unforeseen where it locates you to taste them.

(My translation)

Why blogging this? Still working on my paper =)