
Aeromobilities
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-0-415-58134-9 (ISBN)
Description
Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and research that are global in scope. It is the first book of its kind, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to aviation and air travel in the social sciences and humanities, while emphasizing the central role of aeromobilities in contemporary social relations. In a world where virtually every aspect of social life is touched upon, in one way or another, by the complex global network of airline flows, with its large passenger aircraft and iconic international airports, Aeromobilities provides innovative analyses of some of the most fundamental and influential mobility networks of our time.
Reviews / Votes
"This very interesting, thought-provoking work will be referenced by scholars for many years - Recommended."-- Choice, September 2009
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
147 s/w Abbildungen, 122 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 25 s/w Zeichnungen, 6 s/w Tabellen
6 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white; 122 Halftones, black and white; 147 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-58134-9 (9780415581349)
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Persons
Dr Saulo Cwerner studied social sciences at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, international relations at the University of Leeds and cultural studies at Lancaster University before obtaining a PhD in sociology at Lancaster University. He worked at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, and Lancaster University before joining the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University.
Dr Cwerner researched and published several articles in the fields of migration and refugee studies before conducting research on mobility, air travel and urban life. He is now developing further research on aviation and society from the perspective of mobility studies, with an emphasis on the environment and the politics of aviation.
Dr. Sven Kesselring is member of the TUM Transportation Centre in Munich, Germany, and the director of research of the mobil.TUM project, which is part of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. In 2008 he was a visiting professor for sociological theory at the University of Kassel.
He holds a PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen. Recently he received a grant from the Erich-Becker-Stiftung (Frankfurt Airport Foundation) for his work on airports and globalization.
John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research. His recent books include Sociology Beyond Societies (Routledge, 2000), Global Complexity (Polity, 2003), Tourism Mobilities (edited with Mimi Sheller, 2004), Mobile Technologies of the City (with Mimi Sheller, 2006) and Mobilities (Polity, 2007). He is currently co-writing After the Car (Polity) and co-editing Aeromobilities (Routledge). He edits the International Library of Sociology and the journal Mobilities.
Dr Cwerner researched and published several articles in the fields of migration and refugee studies before conducting research on mobility, air travel and urban life. He is now developing further research on aviation and society from the perspective of mobility studies, with an emphasis on the environment and the politics of aviation.
Dr. Sven Kesselring is member of the TUM Transportation Centre in Munich, Germany, and the director of research of the mobil.TUM project, which is part of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. In 2008 he was a visiting professor for sociological theory at the University of Kassel.
He holds a PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen. Recently he received a grant from the Erich-Becker-Stiftung (Frankfurt Airport Foundation) for his work on airports and globalization.
John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research. His recent books include Sociology Beyond Societies (Routledge, 2000), Global Complexity (Polity, 2003), Tourism Mobilities (edited with Mimi Sheller, 2004), Mobile Technologies of the City (with Mimi Sheller, 2006) and Mobilities (Polity, 2007). He is currently co-writing After the Car (Polity) and co-editing Aeromobilities (Routledge). He edits the International Library of Sociology and the journal Mobilities.
Editor
Lancaster University, UK
Technical University, Munich, Germany
Lancaster University, UK
Content
Part 1: Aeromobilities, Globalization and Social Theory 1. Aeromobilities and the Global 2. Global Transfer Points: the Making of Airports in the Mobile Risk Society Part 2: The Production of Airspaces 3. >store>forward> Architectures of a Future Tense 4 Connecting the World: Analyzing Global City Networks Through Airline Flows 5. Airport Codes/Spaces 6. Air Craft: Producing UK Airspace 7. Around the World in 80 Airports Part 3: The Social Life of Air Travel 8. Airborne on Time 9. A Life in Corridors: Social Perspectives on Aeromobilities and Work in Knowledge Organizations 10. Getting into the Flow Part 4: Governing Air Travel 11. Science, Expertise, and Local Knowledge in Airport Conflicts: Towards a Cosmopolitical Approach 12. Helipads, Heliports and Urban Air Space: Governing the Contested Infrastructure of Helicopter Travel