Aeromobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cwerner, Saulo; Urry, John; Kesselring, Sven

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aeromobilities provides a broad introduction to the study of air travel, airspaces and aviation from the perspective of the social sciences and the humanities. The book makes a strong case for a systematic, interdisciplinary study of some of the most powerful forces that have shaped our mobile globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134059324
• Artikelnr.: 38268080

Autorenporträt

Dr Saulo Cwerner studied social sciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, international relations at the University of Leeds and cultural studies at Lancaster University before obtaining a PhD in sociology at Lancaster University. He worked at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, and Lancaster University before joining the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University. Dr Cwerner researched and published several articles in the fields of migration and refugee studies before conducting research on mobility, air travel and urban life. He is now developing further research on aviation and society from the perspective of mobility studies, with an emphasis on the environment and the politics of aviation. Dr. Sven Kesselring is member of the TUM Transportation Centre in Munich, Germany, and the director of research of the mobil.TUM project, which is part of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technische Universität München. In 2008 he was a visiting professor for sociological theory at the University of Kassel. He holds a PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München. Recently he received a grant from the Erich-Becker-Stiftung (Frankfurt Airport Foundation) for his work on airports and globalization. John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research. His recent books include Sociology Beyond Societies (Routledge, 2000), Global Complexity (Polity, 2003), Tourism Mobilities (edited with Mimi Sheller, 2004), Mobile Technologies of the City (with Mimi Sheller, 2006) and Mobilities (Polity, 2007). He is currently co-writing After the Car (Polity) and co-editing Aeromobilities (Routledge). He edits the International Library of Sociology and the journal Mobilities.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Aeromobilities, Globalization and Social Theory 1. Aeromobilities
and the Global 2. Global Transfer Points: the Making of Airports in the
Mobile Risk Society Part 2: The Production of Airspaces 3. >store>forward>
Architectures of a Future Tense 4 Connecting the World: Analyzing Global
City Networks Through Airline Flows 5. Airport Codes/Spaces 6. Air Craft:
Producing UK Airspace 7. Around the World in 80 Airports Part 3: The Social
Life of Air Travel 8. Airborne on Time 9. A Life in Corridors: Social
Perspectives on Aeromobilities and Work in Knowledge Organizations 10.
Getting into the Flow Part 4: Governing Air Travel 11. Science, Expertise,
and Local Knowledge in Airport Conflicts: Towards a Cosmopolitical Approach
12. Helipads, Heliports and Urban Air Space: Governing the Contested
Infrastructure of Helicopter Travel