On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World

ISBN-13: 9780415952552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 340 str.

Tim Cresswell

Opis

Talks about one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. Through a series of historical episodes, this book shows how mobility and its regulation have been central to the experience of modernity.

Spis treści

1. The Production of Mobilities: An Interpretive Framework  2. The Metaphysics of Fixity and Flow  3. Capturing Mobility: Mobility and Meaning in the Photography of Eadward Muybridge and Ettiene-Jules Marey  4. The Production of Mobilities in the Workplace and the Home  5. 'You Cannot Shake that Shimmie Here: Producing Mobility on the
Dance Floor  6. Mobility, Rights and Citizenship in the United States  7. Producing Immigrant Mobilities (with Gareth Hoskins)  8. Mobilizing the Movement: Entangled Mobilities in the Suffrage Politics of Florence Luscomb and Margaret Foley 1911-1915  9. The Production of Mobilities at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam

O autorze

Tim Cresswell is Professor of Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A noted scholar, Cresswell has published three respected books thus far (with Minnesota, Reaktion and Blackwell), and On the Move has already garnered a glowing review from John Urry of the University of Lancaster. Urry stated that it will become a standard book in the field.