Peter Adey

Aerial Life

Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our lives are supported and carried by the aeroplane, and yet at the same time, they are haunted and threatened by it. This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies, individuals, and the status of human life itself. Author Peter Adey reveals the complex politics of this 'aereality', positioning it at the critical apex of political, cultural, and social relations. Through a series of detailed international case studies, Adey traces the history of aviation over the past century, showing how the early promises of flight, symbolized and performed in the spectacular airshows at Hendon and Rheims, evolved into the devastating bombing campaigns of World War II and the rise of international terrorism. Along the way, we are shown how aerial mobilities may transform societies and subjects, shape individual rights and identities, and alter the very workings of the human body. Soaring beyond the concept of air travel as a metaphorical tool, Aerial Life offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781405182621
• ISBN-10: 1405182628
• Artikelnr.: 31704167

Autorenporträt

Peter Adey is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at Keele University, Staffordshire, England. His research interests include the study of mobility and cultures of aviation and security. Adey is the author of Mobility (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables.

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction.

Part I: Becoming Aerial.

2. Birth of the Aerial Body.

3. The Projection and Performance of Airspace.

Part II: Governing Aerial Life.

4. Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics.

5. Profiling Machines.

Part III: Aerial Aggression.

6. Aerial Environments.

7. Subjects under Siege.

8. Conclusion.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

''Peter Adey is a clear, strong, inventive, unique voice in humangeography. In Aerial Life, he brings together a fascinating set oftheoretical concerns and empirical cases in his inimitable style,with a gravity of purpose and a lightness of touch that makes foran incredibly rich book.'
--Mark B. Salter, University of Ottawa

'By extending critical human geography to the complexverticalities of airspace, Peter Adey offers a vitally importantriposte to the long neglect of aerial cultural politics in thesocial sciences. Aerial Life is a brilliant tour de force.Incisive, comprehensive, fresh and, above all, topical - this isthe book which can guide us as we address the geographies of theaerial.'
--Stephen Graham, Newcastle University