Researching and Representing Mobilities
Transdisciplinary Encounters
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 215 pages
978-1-349-46706-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities.
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Edition
1st ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 215 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-46706-8 (9781349467068)
DOI
10.1057/9781137346667
Schweitzer Classification
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09/2014
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Persons
Karolina Doughty, University of Brighton, UK
Luis Iturra, Santiago, Chile
Anne Jensen, Arrhus University, Denmark
Paola Jirón, University of Chile, Chile
Maja Lagerqvist, Stockholm University, Sweden
Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, UK
Susan Robertson, University of Brighton, UK
Hannah Vincent, Sussex University, UK
Content
1. Mobilising Representations: Dialogues, Embodiment and Power; Lesley Murray and Sara Upstone 2. Power and Representations of Mobility: from the Nexus between Emotional and Sensuous Embodiment and Discursive and Ideational Construction; Anne Jensen 3. 'Footprints are the only fixed point': Mobilities in Postcolonial Fiction; Sara Upstone 4. Constructing the Mobile City: Gendered Mobilities in London fiction; Lesley Murray and Hannah Vincent 5. A Motor Flight Through Early Twentieth-century Consciousness: Capturing the Driving-event 1905-1935; Lynne Pearce 6. Reading the Mobile City through Street Art: Belfast's Murals; Lesley Murray 7. Drawing the Motorway: Mobile Representations in Design and Architecture; Susan Robertson 8. The Pan Flute Musicians at Sergels Torg: Between Global Flows and Specificities of Place; Karolina Doughty and Maja Lagerqvist 9. Travelling the Journey: Understanding Mobility Trajectories by Recreating Research Paths; Paola Jirón and Luis Iturra 10. Conclusion; Lesley Murray and Sara Upstone