Phillip Vannini

Ferry Tales (eBook, ePUB)

Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136486135
• Artikelnr.: 38274832

Autorenporträt

Phillip Vannini is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, in Victoria, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author and editor of eight books including Understanding Society through Popular Music (with Joe Kotarba), and The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society (both published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Before Departure 1. A Queen's Drowning 2. Ways of Moving 3. Getting
to the BC Coast 4. The Making of Ferry Tales Part 2: Welcome Aboard 5.
Travel as Performance 6. Of Ferries and Their Passengers 7. Ferry
Technoculture 8. In the Kids' Zone Part 3: A Different Kind of Place 9.
Insulation and Isolation 10. The Feel of Island and Coastal Life 11. En
Route to Heaven? 12. Removed Part 4: In Time, Out of Time 13. Island Time
14. Speed...Sort of... 15. Keeping the Rhythm 16. Are we there yet? Part 5:
Ferries, Power, and Politics 17. Constellations of (In-)Convenience 18.
Danger: Keep Off the Rocks 19. More Cracks in the Water 20. Changing Life
on the Coast Part 6: Performing Elusive Mobilities 21. The Taskscape of
Travel 22. How to Catch a Ferry 23. Ritual, Play, and Drama 24. Elusiveness
Part 7: Waiting for a Ride 25. Time Thieves 26. Dwelling in Lineups 27.
Mind the Gap 28. Another Sailing Wait