Peter Adey

Aerial Life (eBook, ePUB)

Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. * Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society * Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility * Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today * Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities * Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444391343
• Artikelnr.: 38307966

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