Alternative (Im)Mobilities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Nogueira, Maria Alice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By introducing the new concept of alternative (im)mobilities, this collection draws attention to a different approach to mobility practices. In doing so, this ground-breaking volume explores a range of issues related related to (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic, transport and social practices, and media and urban tourism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000618280
• Artikelnr.: 64101756

Autorenporträt

Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira is a Professor at the Escola de Comunicação - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ), Brazil. Her research focuses on the interconnections between (im)mobility, communication, advertising, and marketing. She is currently a member of two research groups, Mobilities, Theory, Topics and Methods (MTTM) and The Rhetoric of the Consumption (ReC).. She holds a Ph.D. Degree in History, Politics and Culture from the Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (Cpdoc- FGV RJ), Brazil and a master's degree in Social Communication from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC Rio), Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Alternative (im)mobilities 1. When public health policies
fail: Community management in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in
Paraisópolis, São Paulo 2. An alternative for whom? Buenos Aires' school
commuting and the "bicycle boom" in pandemic time 3. Cyclelogistics &
uberization: Challenges and transformative actions to improve delivery
cyclists' work conditions 4. Caring Cities: The urgent concerns after
apparent immobility in southern cities 5. Gendered perspectives in mobility
and safety in public transport. The case of motorcycle taxis (boda boda) in
Kisumu City, Kenya 6. Informal mobility in the Alemão Complex, Rio de
Janeiro 7. Peripheries on the move: New urban grammars and epistemic
disputes over center-periphery borders in São Paulo 8. Rearrangements and
trajectories: Italian-Brazilian ice-cream parlor workers in Germany in
Covid-19 times 9. Favela virtual tour: Alternative mobilities in favela
tourism during Covid-19 pandemic 10. After the #stayhome, "live like a
local": Towards alternative urban tourism mobilities?