Aeromobilities

ISBN-13: 9780415449564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 260 str.

Saulo Cwerner;Sven Kesselring;John Urry

Opis

Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and research that are global in scope. It is the first book of its kind, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to aviation and air travel in the social sciences and humanities, while emphasizing the central role of aeromobilities in contemporary social relations. In a world where virtually every aspect of social life is touched upon, in one way or another, by the complex global network of airline flows, with its large passenger aircraft and iconic international airports, Aeromobilities provides innovative analyses of some of the most fundamental and influential mobility networks of our time.

Among the forces that have shaped the emerging global dis/order, air travel stands as one of the most pervasive, and yet one of the least understood. It is easy to understate the extent to which air travel has changed the face of whole regions and societies, and recast previous patterns of social life. However, through its transformation of place and distance, essential features in a new global hypermobility, aviation has had a huge impact, for over a century now, on modern social life.

Aeromobilities provides a ground-breaking introduction to the study of air travel, aviation, and airspaces. With an interdisciplinary focus on both theory and research methodology, the book explores topics such as airport spaces, global airline flows, and the environmental politics of aviation. Through analyses of the centrality of air travel in contemporary social life, this book provides an invaluable contribution to the study of space, mobility and globalization.

Spis treści

Part 1: Aeromobilities, Globalization and Social Theory 1. Aeromobilities and the Global 2. Global Transfer Points: the Making of Airports in the Mobile Risk Society  Part 2: The Production of Airspaces 3. >store>forward> Architectures of a Future Tense 4 Connecting the World: Analyzing Global City Networks Through Airline Flows 5. Airport Codes/Spaces 6. Air Craft: Producing UK Airspace 7. Around the World in 80 Airports  Part 3: The Social Life of Air Travel 8. Airborne on Time 9. A Life in Corridors: Social Perspectives on Aeromobilities and Work in Knowledge Organizations 10. Getting into the Flow  Part 4: Governing Air Travel 11. Science, Expertise, and Local Knowledge in Airport Conflicts: Towards a Cosmopolitical Approach 12. Helipads, Heliports and Urban Air Space: Governing the Contested Infrastructure of Helicopter Travel