Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast

ISBN-13: 9780415883061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Phillip Vannini

Opis

The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility and place and culture in greater depth, and also to connect this lived experience on the British Columbia coast with many other social habitats. In the process, readers are introduced to social theorists illumination of this social life the value of thinking and seeing theoretically. Ferry Tales inaugurates a new series entitled Innotavite Ethnographies for Routledge. The purpose of this series is to use the new digital technology to capture a richer, more multidimensional view of social life than was otherwise done in the classic, print tradition of ethnography, while maintaining the traditional strengths of classic, ethnographic analysis.

Spis treści

Part 1: Before Departure  1. A Queen’s Drowning  2. Ways of Moving  3. Getting to the BC Coast  4. The Making of Ferry Tales  Part 2: Welcome Aboard  5. Travel as Performance  6. Of Ferries and Their Passengers  7. Ferry Technoculture  8. In the Kids’ Zone  Part 3: A Different Kind of Place  9. Insulation and Isolation  10. The Feel of Island and Coastal Life  11. En Route to Heaven?  12. Removed  Part 4: In Time, Out of Time  13. Island Time  14. Speed…Sort of…  15. Keeping the Rhythm  16. Are we there yet?  Part 5: Ferries, Power, and Politics  17. Constellations of (In-)Convenience  18. Danger: Keep Off the Rocks  19. More Cracks in the Water  20. Changing Life on the Coast  Part 6: Performing Elusive Mobilities  21. The Taskscape of Travel  22. How to  Catch a Ferry  23. Ritual, Play, and Drama  24. Elusiveness  Part 7: Waiting for a Ride  25. Time Thieves  26. Dwelling in Lineups  27. Mind the Gap  28. Another Sailing Wait

O autorze

Phillip Vannini is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, in Victoria, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author and editor of eight books including Understanding Society through Popular Music (with Joe Kotarba), and The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society (both published by Routledge).