Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415581233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 236 str.

Peter Frank Peters

Opis

In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization within these disciplines. By analyzing historic and contextualized transit practices, this revealing book argues that travel cannot now simply be reduced to getting from A to B; it is an integrated part of everyday life. In this area, researching how problems can be identified as dilemmas and reformulated as design problems helps create a new vocabulary; one which will not only change the agenda in the debate on mobility problems in the public domain, but will also suggest new ways of theorizing mobility innovations.

Spis treści

Introduction  Reasoning with Travel Time   Narratives on Travelled Time   The Passages of Thomas Cook   Roadside Wilderness   Airborne on Time   Sharing the Road   Smart Travel  Conclusion: The Art of Travel

O autorze

Dr. Peter Frank Peters (1960) is assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts & Culture of the University of Maastricht. He has published on time, mobility and travel in technological cultures. His research is concerned with the debates on public problems related to mobility and the assessment of innovations that are suggested to solve these problems.