Colin Divall

Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations, the case studies in this essay collection range from medieval to modern times and cover several continents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317317258
• Artikelnr.: 43588935

Autorenporträt

Divall, Colin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cultural Histories of Sociabilities
Spaces and Mobilities
Colin Divall; Part I Structuring Mobilities
Spaces
Sociabilities; Chapter 1 Home Lands: How Women on the Move Made the West
Virginia Scharff; Chapter 2 Gender and American Mobility: Cars
Women and the Issue of Equality
Margaret Walsh; Chapter 3 Colours
Compartments and Corridors: Racialized Spaces
Mobility and Sociability in South Africa
Gordon H. Pirie; Part II The Urban and Peri-urban; Chapter 4 Land and Labour: Rails
Workers and Commuting in South-West Flanders
Belgium
1830-1930
Greet De Block; Chapter 5 City of Tomorrow: The Representations of Buenos Aires in the Future through Imagined Mobility c. 1880-1914
Dhan Zunino Singh; Chapter 6 How to Make a Map for the Hades of Names: The New York City Subway Map Wars of the 1970s
Stefan Höhne; Chapter 7 'This River Used to be So Full of Life': Histories of Mobility on the Thames and their Role in the Negotiation of Place
Community and Sociability
Heidi Seetzen; Part III Pilgrims
Travellers and Tourists; Chapter 8 Otherness and Englishness in Late-Mediaeval Pilgrimage Guides
Emily Price; Chapter 9 Constructing the Tokugawa Spatial Imaginary: Kaibara Ekiken and his Revival of Fudoki
Nobuko Toyosawa; Chapter 10 Languages of Popular Hospitality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
Ulrike Krampl; Chapter 11 'Doing the Gap': Sociability and Tourism Networks at Killarney
1850-1914
Kevin J. James; Chapter 12 Eating Across the Ocean: The Role of Food in the Construction of the Tourists' North Atlantic
1947-76
Birgit Braasch; Chapter 13 Automobility and the Building of Tourism in Communist Romania c. 1960-89
Adelina Oana Stefan; Chapter 14 Moving Towards Santiago: Reverie on the Road and Rails
Jennifer Sime;