Mobilities and Complexities

Herausgeber: Jensen, Ole B.; Sheller, Mimi; Kesselring, Sven

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how John Urry's writing influenced their thinking and the course of their research and theorizing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9781138601420
• ISBN-10: 113860142X
• Artikelnr.: 54481489

Autorenporträt

Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory. He has a cross-disciplinary background in political science, sociology and planning. He studies how sociality is reconfigured by complex mobilities in the designed environs and infrastructural landscapes of the contemporary city. Sven Kesselring is a sociologist and Research Professor in Sustainable Mobilities at Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany. His research focuses on mobilities theory, socio-technological change and labour mobilities. His recent publications are Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities (2018, with Malene Freudendal-Pedersen); New Mobilities Regimes (2013, with Susanne Witzgall and Gerlinde Vogl) and Aeromobilities (2009; with John Urry and Saolo Cwerner). Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and past president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. She is the author or co-editor of ten books, the most recent being Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword I Foreword II Part I Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2:
Encountering John Urry: A Fragment of an Autobiography in Theory Chapter 3:
Will There be an Urryism? The Dialectic of a Plural Thinker in Singular
Times Chapter 4: Migration, the sociology of mobility and critical theory
Chapter 5: Postdisciplinary encounters between Lancaster and the rest of
the world Chapter 6: Following Part II Chapter 7: Proximity from a
distance: virtual and imaginative mobility through the intimacies of life
on screen Chapter 8: Postcards from a City Chapter 9: The Sensory Pleasures
of the Disoriented Tourist Chapter 10: Some Personal Reflections on the
Social Production of Multiple Natures Chapter 11: On a pilgrimage: A
journey with John Urry Chapter 12: Remembering my special academic journey
with John Urry Part III Chapter 13: Going places Chapter 14: John Urry's
adventures in Brazil Chapter 15: After the End of Tourism Chapter 16:
Tourism, Mobilities, Geopolitics, Events Chapter 17: Running away from, or
with, the tourist gaze Chapter 18: It's About Time... Chapter 19:
Ice-Fishing with John Urry - and Other Finnish Episodes of Ontological
Importance Part IV Chapter 20: Mobilities without weight Chapter 21: Time -
the Particular and the Universal Chapter 22: A long conversation on
meetings, travels, and conversations with John Urry Chapter 23: Europe
beyond Mobilities Chapter 24: Mobility - why actually? Chapter 25: How one
book and one meeting shaped my aeromobilities research Chapter 26: Working
materials: mobile objects, ideas and people Part V Chapter 27: Social
Futures Chapter 28: The Future's Never Simple when its Complex: Social
Forecasting with John Urry Chapter 29: From Mobilities to Mobile Lives and
Beyond: The World According to John Urry Chapter 30: Liveable Data: a Low
Carbon Science Fiction (SF) with John Urry Chapter 31: A planetary turn for
the social sciences? Chapter 32: Mobility and Simplicity Afterword