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Automobilities

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4129-1089-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 19.05.2005
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Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the important of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions demonstrate just how significant have been the economic, technological, social and political consequences of a pervasive and accelerating culture of the car. A broad array of theories are put to work to illuminate this vast and yet neglected topic: strategy and tactics, complexity theory, performativity, actor network theory, film theory, material culture, theories of non-places, embodiment, sensuous geography/sociology, ethnomethodology and non-representational theory. This book will firmly establish automobilities as a key topic for theory and research. Automobilities represents a landmark text that will contribute to and provide a significant impetus for the emerging analysis of mobilities in contemporary societies.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781412910897
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4129-1089-7
  • Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 19.05.2005
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2005
  • Serie: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 602 g
  • Seiten: 288
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm

Introduction - Mike FeatherstoneThe ¿System¿ of Automobility - John UrryDriving in the City - Nigel ThriftThe Driver-Car - Tim DantMobility and Safety - Jörg BeckmannAutomobility and National Identity - Tim Edensor Representation, Geography and Driving PracticeCars and Nations - Rudy J Koshar Anglo-German Perspectives on Automobility Between the World WarsDriving Places - Peter Merriman Marc Augé, Non-Places and the Geographies of England¿s M1 MotorwayThree Ages of the Automobile - David Gartman The Cultural Logics of the CarAuto Couture - David Inglis Thinking the Car in Post-War FranceAutomotive Emotions - Mimi Sheller Feeling the CarAutomobility and the Power of Sound - Michael BullDoing Officework on the Motorway - Eric Laurier