The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Routes Less Travelled
Redaktion: Vannini, Phillip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities presents a series of ethnographic studies, focusing on the local cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the everyday sense of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them. Compensating for the excess of theory and criticism based on the notion of 'hypermobilities', this book sheds light on the nuanced differences and idiosyncrasies of mobility, with a view to rediscovering meanings and lifestyles marked by movement and immobility. Original, empirical and global case studies are presented by an international team of scholars, exploring the complex, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of movement. By avoiding sweeping generalizations on the deeply connected and readily mobile nature of society as a whole, this volume sheds light on the diversity of mobility modes in an accessible and interdisciplinary form that will be of key interest, to sociologists, geographers and scholars of human mobility, communication and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317036579
• Artikelnr.: 44864390

Autorenporträt

Phillip Vannini is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword: mobilities as culture
Ole B. Jensen; The cultures of alternative mobilities
Phillip Vannini; Part 1 Performing Space and Time: Paddle and portage: the travail of BWCA canoe travel
Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul; Walking and sitting in Australian Antarctic Territory: mobility and imperial space
Christy Collis; Moving with others: the sociality of the railway journey
David Bissell; The view from the air: the cultural geographies of flight
Lucy Budd; The making of mundane bus journeys
Juliet Jain. Part 2 Mobile Biographies
Identities
and Lifestyles: Dear Diary: auto/biography
respect
and mobility
Gayle Letherby and Jon Shaw; Immobile mobility in daily travelling experiences in Santiago de Chile
Paola Jirón; Mobility in later life: time
choice
and action
Lena Levin; Solitude at sea or social sailing? The constitution and perception of the cruising community
Martina Kleinert; Mobility as strategy
mobility as tactic: post-industrialism and bike messengers
Jeffrey L. Kidder. Part 3 The Materialities of Mobility: Wet and boisterous: the lumpy romance? of commuting by boat
Roger Boshier; Cancelled
aborted
late
mechanical: the vagaries of air travel in Arviat
Nunavut
Canada
Lisa-Jo van den Scott; Mobility
ritual
and performance: an ethnography of parents'
children's and youths' ferry boat travel
Phillip Vannini and April Vannini with Jacob Manson and Autumn Vannini; Coming of age in a time of motorcycles
Richard G. Mitchell Jr and Adele Kubein; Winslow - a city in motion
Janna Jones and Mark Neumann; Index.