Author: John Urry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: mobilities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0745634184
ISBN-13: 9780745634180

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people’s lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of ’mobility’ are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with ’mobility’ which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop. John Urry has been at the centre of these

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: mobilities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0745634192
ISBN-13: 9780745634197

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people’s lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of ’mobility’ are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with ’mobility’ which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop.John Urry has been at the centre of these debates

Authors:Peter M Burns, Marina Novelli,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: mobilities, tourism
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-07-18
List price: $123.50
ISBN-10: 1845934040
ISBN-13: 9781845934040

In the current trend of increasing globalization, relationships are evolving between global and local realities, rich and poor regions of the world and old and new leisure and tourism patterns. The tourist has become an active agent in their travel experiences, moving between and among multiple localities, in an environment of transnational, interconnected social networks. In order to understand the modern tourist, concepts of mobility have begun to be applied to tourism studies and have questioned whether the word tourism is any longer sufficient to describe the complex socio-political mi

Author: Peter Adey
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: ibg, book, series, rgs, affects, life, spaces, mobilities, aerial
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1405182628
ISBN-13: 9781405182621

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 societyPresents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or ’aerealities’, and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobilityFeatures 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

Authors:Judith Resnik,  Seyla Benhabi,
Publisher: NYU Pre
Keywords: gender, borders, citizenship, mobilities, migrations
Number of Pages: 505
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814776000
ISBN-13: 9780814776001

Bibliography: http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/9780814775998_benhabib_biblio.pdfIn an increasingly globalized world, the movement of peoples across national borders is posing unprecedented challenges, for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin. Citizenship is now a topic in focus around the world but much of that discussion takes place without sufficient attention to the women, men, and children, in and out of families, whose statuses and treatments depend upon how countries view their arrival. As essays in this volume detail, both t

Authors:Timo Ohnmacht, Hanja Maksim, Manfred Max Bergman, &
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: society, transport, inequality, mobilities
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-04-24
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754674959
ISBN-13: 9780754674955

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Author: Weert CanzlerVincent Kaufmann and Sven Kesselring
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: society, transport, mobilities, tracing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754648680
ISBN-13: 9780754648680

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality, and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, the book presents a movement that begins with the macrosocial transformations linked to mobility and ends with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life.The book opens with a study of the social changes unique to the second age of modernity, with contributions from Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Wolfgang Bonss, and Sven Kesselring. It continues with a discussion of the implications of these changes for s