The Politics of Proximity

Mobility and Immobility in Practice
Herausgeber: Pellegrino, Giuseppina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures. This book focuses in particular on the 'political' dimension of mobility and immobility, which plays a key role in establishing patterns of proximity in real and virtual co-presence. Proximity is seen as the result of choices, negotiations and practices carried out in different settings. Drawing from different literature streams (Sociology, Organization Studies and Science and Technology Studies), this book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile work - are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this book offers a cross-cultural and innovative theoretical framing of issues linked to mobility, through the link with immobility and proximity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780754677666
• ISBN-10: 0754677664
• Artikelnr.: 42351384

Autorenporträt

Giuseppina Pellegrino is a Lecturer in Sociology of Culture and Communication, at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
John Urry; Preface; Introduction: studying (im)mobility through a politics of proximity
Giuseppina Pellegrino; Part I Categories of Proximity/Mobility: Space
mobility and new boundaries: the redefinition of social action
Maria Cristina Marchetti; Mobility and the notion of attainable reach
Kjell Engelbrekt; The harvest of Dionysus. Mobility/proximity
indigenous migrants and relational machines
Carmelo Buscema. Part II Discourse/Identity on Proximity and Mobility: The semiotics of (im)mobilities: two discursive case studies of the system of automobility
Chaim Noy; Mobility after war: re-negotiating belonging in Jaffna
Sri Lanka
Eva Gerharz. Part III Global Firms/Urban Landscapes as Scenery for Proximity and Mobility: Human costs of mobility: on management in multinational companies
Laura Gherardi; Urban mobility
accessibility and social equity: a comparative study in four European metropolitan areas
Matteo Colleoni; Mobility practices in Santiago de Chile: the consequences of restricted urban accessibility
Paola Jirón; Index.