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Mobilities (Hardcover)
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Mobilities (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Concepts in Built Environment
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The world is on the move. This is a widespread understanding by
many inhabitants of contemporary society across the Globe. But what
does it actually mean? During over one decade the 'mobilities turn'
within the social sciences have provided a new set of insights into
the repercussions of mobilities to social networks, personal
identities, and our relationship to the built environment. The
omnipresence of mobilities within everyday life, high politics,
technology, and tourism (to mention but a few) all point to a key
insight harnessed by the 'mobilities turn'. Namely that mobilities
is much more than simple movements of people, goods, and
information from A to B. This new title creates a state-of-the-art
reference work for all students and scholars with an interest in
the 'mobilities turn' and its contributions to a deeper
understanding of the contemporary and mobile world. The entries
chosen all are amongst the most creative and thought provoking of
this diverse field. The selection covers diverse topics such as
theories, concepts, methods, and approaches as well as exploring
various modes of mobilities and the relationship to everyday life
practices. The pieces also cover the 'politics of mobilities' from
local urban planning schemes to geopolitical issues of refugees and
environmental degradation. The spaces and territories marked by
mobilities as well as the sites marked by the bypassing of such are
explored. Moreover, the architectural and technological dimensions
to infrastructures and sites of mobilities will be included
alongside issues of power, social exclusion, consumption,
surveillance and mobilities history, to mention some of the many
themes covered by this reference work of the best previously
published material. The focus is on the academic contributions to
this understanding by primarily focusing on works and publications
in the aftermath of the seminal book and landmark text 'Sociology
Beyond Societies. Mobilities for the 21th Century' by John Urry
(Routledge, 2000) which in many ways have worked as the starting
point for the 'mobilities turn'.
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