Mobilities

by Urry, John

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Title Statements

Full title :Mobilities / John Urry.

Summary

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave - trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of 'mobility' are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with 'mobility' which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop. John Urry has been at the centre of these debates and he draws upon an extensive array of new research and material to develop what he calls the 'new mobilities paradigm' for the social sciences. He shows how this paradigm makes comprehensible social phenomena which were previously opaque. He examines how 'mobilities' each presuppose a 'system' that permits predictable and relatively risk-free repetition. The book outlines various such systems and then analyses their intersecting implications for social inequality, for social networks and meetings, for the nature of places and for alternative mobility futures.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 335 pages)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn654469645
LC Classification:HE151
Dewey Decimal:303.4832

Part 1. Mobile worlds. 1. Mobilizing social life -- 2. 'Mobile' theories and methods -- 3. The mobilities paradigm --- Part 2. Moving and communicating. 4. Pavements and Paths -- 5. 'Public' trains -- 6. Inhabiting cars and roads -- 7. Flying around -- 8. Connecting and imagining --- Part 3. Societies and systems on the move. 9. Gates to heaven and hell -- 10. Networks -- 11. Meetings -- 12. Places -- 13. Systems and dark futures.

Subjects

71.40 social processes: general Befolkningsgeografi Bevölkerungsgeografie Flexibilität Géographie de la population Globalisierung Mobilität Mobiliteit (algemeen) Nachindustrielle Gesellschaft Öffentlicher Verkehr Population geography Sciences sociales Social sciences Sociale aspecten Soziale Mobilität Transport -- Aspect social transportation Transportation -- Social aspects Transporter