Mobilities and Complexities

ISBN-13: 9781138601437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 270 str.

Ole B. Jensen; Sven Kesselring; Mimi Sheller

Opis

This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how John Urry’s writing influenced their thinking and the course of their research and theorizing.

Spis treści

Foreword I  Foreword II  Part I  Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Encountering John Urry: A Fragment of an Autobiography in Theory  Chapter 3: Will There be an Urryism? The Dialectic of a Plural Thinker in Singular Times  Chapter 4: Migration, the sociology of mobility and critical theory  Chapter 5: Postdisciplinary encounters between Lancaster and the rest of the world  Chapter 6: Following  Part II  Chapter 7: Proximity from a distance: virtual and imaginative mobility through the intimacies of life on screen  Chapter 8: Postcards from a City  Chapter 9: The Sensory Pleasures of the Disoriented Tourist  Chapter 10: Some Personal Reflections on the Social Production of Multiple Natures  Chapter 11: On a pilgrimage: A journey with John Urry  Chapter 12: Remembering my special academic journey with John Urry  Part III  Chapter 13: Going places  Chapter 14: John Urry’s adventures in Brazil  Chapter 15: After the End of Tourism  Chapter 16: Tourism, Mobilities, Geopolitics, Events  Chapter 17: Running away from, or with, the tourist gaze  Chapter 18: It’s About Time…  Chapter 19: Ice-Fishing with John Urry – and Other Finnish Episodes of Ontological Importance  Part IV  Chapter 20: Mobilities without weight  Chapter 21: Time - the Particular and the Universal  Chapter 22: A long conversation on meetings, travels, and conversations with John Urry   Chapter 23: Europe beyond Mobilities  Chapter 24: Mobility – why actually?  Chapter 25: How one book and one meeting shaped my aeromobilities research  Chapter 26: Working materials: mobile objects, ideas and people  Part V  Chapter 27: Social Futures  Chapter 28: The Future’s Never Simple when its Complex: Social Forecasting with John Urry  Chapter 29: From Mobilities to Mobile Lives and Beyond: The World According to John Urry  Chapter 30: Liveable Data: a Low Carbon Science Fiction (SF) with John Urry  Chapter 31: A planetary turn for the social sciences?  Chapter 32: Mobility and Simplicity  Afterword