Timothy Cresswell

On the Move (eBook, PDF)

Mobility in the Modern Western World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

On the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. However, as Cresswell shows through a series of historical episodes, while mobility has certainly increased in modern times, attempts to control mobility are just as characteristic of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136083143
• Artikelnr.: 38447304

Autorenporträt

Tim Cresswell is Professor of Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A noted scholar, Cresswell has published three respected books thus far (with Minnesota, Reaktion and Blackwell), and On the Move has already garnered a glowing review from John Urry of the University of Lancaster. Urry stated that it will become a standard book in the field.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Production of Mobilities: An Interpretive Framework 2. The
Metaphysics of Fixity and Flow 3. Capturing Mobility: Mobility and Meaning
in the Photography of Eadward Muybridge and Ettiene-Jules Marey 4. The
Production of Mobilities in the Workplace and the Home 5. 'You Cannot Shake
that Shimmie Here: Producing Mobility on the
Dance Floor 6. Mobility, Rights and Citizenship in the United States 7.
Producing Immigrant Mobilities (with Gareth Hoskins) 8. Mobilizing the
Movement: Entangled Mobilities in the Suffrage Politics of Florence Luscomb
and Margaret Foley 1911-1915 9. The Production of Mobilities at Schiphol
Airport, Amsterdam