With an international team of scholars presenting original empirical case studies from around the world, The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities explores the complex, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of movement. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this volume will be of interest, to sociologists, geographers and scholars of human mobility, communication and culture.
With an international team of scholars presenting original empirical case studies from around the world, The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities explores the complex, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of movement. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this volume will be of interest, to sociologists, geographers and scholars of human mobility, communication and culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Phillip Vannini is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, Canada
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Contents: Foreword: mobilities as culture Ole B. Jensen; The cultures of alternative mobilities Phillip Vannini; Part 1 Performing Space and Time: Paddle and portage: the travail of BWCA canoe travel Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul; Walking and sitting in Australian Antarctic Territory: mobility and imperial space Christy Collis; Moving with others: the sociality of the railway journey David Bissell; The view from the air: the cultural geographies of flight Lucy Budd; The making of mundane bus journeys Juliet Jain. Part 2 Mobile Biographies Identities and Lifestyles: Dear Diary: auto/biography respect and mobility Gayle Letherby and Jon Shaw; Immobile mobility in daily travelling experiences in Santiago de Chile Paola Jirón; Mobility in later life: time choice and action Lena Levin; Solitude at sea or social sailing? The constitution and perception of the cruising community Martina Kleinert; Mobility as strategy mobility as tactic: post-industrialism and bike messengers Jeffrey L. Kidder. Part 3 The Materialities of Mobility: Wet and boisterous: the lumpy romance? of commuting by boat Roger Boshier; Cancelled aborted late mechanical: the vagaries of air travel in Arviat Nunavut Canada Lisa-Jo van den Scott; Mobility ritual and performance: an ethnography of parents' children's and youths' ferry boat travel Phillip Vannini and April Vannini with Jacob Manson and Autumn Vannini; Coming of age in a time of motorcycles Richard G. Mitchell Jr and Adele Kubein; Winslow - a city in motion Janna Jones and Mark Neumann; Index.
Contents: Foreword: mobilities as culture Ole B. Jensen; The cultures of alternative mobilities Phillip Vannini; Part 1 Performing Space and Time: Paddle and portage: the travail of BWCA canoe travel Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul; Walking and sitting in Australian Antarctic Territory: mobility and imperial space Christy Collis; Moving with others: the sociality of the railway journey David Bissell; The view from the air: the cultural geographies of flight Lucy Budd; The making of mundane bus journeys Juliet Jain. Part 2 Mobile Biographies Identities and Lifestyles: Dear Diary: auto/biography respect and mobility Gayle Letherby and Jon Shaw; Immobile mobility in daily travelling experiences in Santiago de Chile Paola Jirón; Mobility in later life: time choice and action Lena Levin; Solitude at sea or social sailing? The constitution and perception of the cruising community Martina Kleinert; Mobility as strategy mobility as tactic: post-industrialism and bike messengers Jeffrey L. Kidder. Part 3 The Materialities of Mobility: Wet and boisterous: the lumpy romance? of commuting by boat Roger Boshier; Cancelled aborted late mechanical: the vagaries of air travel in Arviat Nunavut Canada Lisa-Jo van den Scott; Mobility ritual and performance: an ethnography of parents' children's and youths' ferry boat travel Phillip Vannini and April Vannini with Jacob Manson and Autumn Vannini; Coming of age in a time of motorcycles Richard G. Mitchell Jr and Adele Kubein; Winslow - a city in motion Janna Jones and Mark Neumann; Index.
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