Geographies of Mobility (eBook, PDF)

Recent Advances in Theory and Method
Redaktion: Kwan, Mei-Po; Schwanen, Tim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on human mobility and related issues. It presents these advances in five thematic sections: conceptualizing and analysing mobility, politics of mobility, decentering mobility, and qualifying abstraction. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351969819
• Artikelnr.: 54672459

Autorenporträt

Mei-Po Kwan is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests include human mobility, environmental health, sustainable transport and cities, and geographic information science. She has received many prestigious honors and awards for her groundbreaking contributions to these areas. Tim Schwanen is an Associate Professor of Transport Studies and the Director of the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on questions around mobility, cities, climate change, well-being, and inequality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Geographies of Mobility Developing a Framework for the Spaces
and Spatialities of Transportation and Mobilities Mobility Among the
Spatialities Algorithmic Geographies: Big Data, Algorithmic Uncertainty,
and the Production of Geographic Knowledge Mobility Research in the Age of
the Smartphone Rosa Parks Redux: Racial Mobility Projects on the Journey to
Work Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York Mobility,
Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens
Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability
Regime Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World: Contested Infrastructure
in Postdisaster Contexts Contesting Street Spaces in a Socialist
City:Itinerant Vending-Scapes and the Everyday Politics of Mobility in
Hanoi, Vietnam Mobilizing a Spatial Politics of Street Skating: Thinking
About the Geographies of Generosity Locked in Place: Young People's
Immobilities and the Slovenian Erasure Stuart Unintended Return: U.S.
Deportations and the Fractious Politics of Mobility for Latinos
Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship The Geopolitics of
Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Micropolitics of Mobility: Public Transport Commuting and Everyday
Encounters with Forces of Enablement and Constraint 404 Mobility
Disadvantage and Livelihood Opportunities of Marginalized Widowed Women in
Rural Uganda Livelihoods as Relational Immobilities: Exploring the Everyday
Practices of Young Female Sex Workers in Ethiopia Mobilities at Gunpoint:
The Geographies of (Im)mobility of Transgender Sex Workers in Colombia
Mobilities in Rural Africa: New Connections, New Challenges The Way They
Blow the Horn: Caribbean Dollar Cabs and Subaltern Mobilities Fixing
Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Cycling Policy and Practice in London as a
Mode of Political Economic and Biopolitical Governance Policies on the
Move: The Transatlantic Travels of Tax Increment Financing Temporal Trends
of Intraurban Commuting in Baton Rouge, 1990-2010 A Location-Centric
Network Approach to Analyzing Epidemic Dynamics Another Tale of Two Cities:
Understanding Human Activity Space Using Actively Tracked Cellphone
Location Data