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Material Mobilities (Hardcover)
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Material Mobilities (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Mobilities
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Material Mobilities explores the material dimension of various
forms of mobilities and its implications for society, politics and
everyday experiences as well as investigates how materials
themselves are on the move. Together the different contributions
and perspectives on material mobilities illustrate how
materialities are critical components within mobilities but also
shape how mobilities are produced and consumed within contemporary
mobile societies. This insight may potentially influence the ways
disciplines of mobilities understand and approach mobilities in the
future. This book exemplifies how the new Mobilities turn may
profit from foregrounding materials, the material, and materiality
as a common pivot for social analysis. During the last decade of
research affiliated to the 'new mobilities turn' the societal
repercussions of intensive mobilities has been in focus. The 'turn'
has documented the social, environmental, economic, and cultural
effects of the contemporary patterns of movement of people,
vehicles, goods, data and information. In parallel with this work
new ideas and concepts about the human/non-human and the 'material
dimension' of the social world has surfaced within a wide array of
fields such as philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Material Mobilities offers a materially sensitive and focused
attention to the new Mobilities turn. The 'turn to the material'
opens up a new set of research questions related to how artefacts
and technologies facilitating and affording mobilities are being
designed, constructed, and instituted. The new material interest
furthermore points at new ways of comprehending the political and
the power-dimensions of mobilities and infrastructural landscapes.
The turn to the material furthermore problematizes the Modern
binary distinctions between humans and non-humans, subjects and
objects, culture and nature.
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