Mobilities in Remote Places (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vannini, Phillip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000916348
• Artikelnr.: 68085267

Autorenporträt

Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. He has conducted research on BC Ferries, off-grid living, small island cultures and communities, natural heritage, everyday life, the cultural aspects of the human senses, food and culture, and sense of place. His latest research project examines natural heritage and wildness and has resulted in the books Inhabited (2021) and In the Name of Wild (2022) as well as the award-winning documentary film Inhabited. He is the author of Ferry Tales (Routledge, 2012) and Doing Public Ethnography (Routledge, 2018) and co-author of The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture (Routledge, 2011), Off the Grid (Routledge, 2014), and Wilderness (Routledge, 2016). He is also editor of The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities (Routledge, 2009), Non-Representational Methodologies (Routledge, 2015), and The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Body/Embodiment (Routledge, 2006), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Culture (Routledge, 2009), and Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mobilities in remote places: introduction Part 1: Rhythms 2. Making
remoteness through pandemic im/mobilities on the Isle of Coll, Scotland 3.
Lavorare dal Sud: return to Southern Italy and remote work in pandemic
times 4. Cards, memories and places: exploring remoteness and place in
rural Denmark Part 2: Routes 5. From trade corridor to dead end? Eastern
Afghanistan as a remote borderland 6. Bigsy vs the Mice: tiny airports
flying in the face of a compromised fate 7. Mobilities on the margins: the
becoming of Melrakkaslétta as a tourist destination Part 3: Speeds 8. When
the road came: remoteness, mobility and social change among youth in Kaasa,
Ghana 9. Where media technology is not fully available: sound-based means
of transport as local media Part 4: Frictions 10. The immobilities of
non-automobile residents of rural Spain 11. Moving Patagonia: contemporary
rural dwelling through estancias, puestos and puesteros Part 5: Feels 12.
Slowness, sense of community, and changing perceptions of mobility in
Tajikistan's Bartang Valley 13. Ancient paths, new forms of movement in the
Peruvian Andes Part 6: Motives 14. The lure of immobility: living and
coworking in rural France 15. Mobilizing and practising remoteness in
Iceland's Westfjords 16. The groundhog trail: the geographies of habitat
and daily life for mobile workers at the Romaine River hydroelectric site