9781412910897: Automobilities
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ISBN 10 : 1412910897 ISBN 13 : 9781412910897
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Inc
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1412910897
ISBN 13 
9781412910897
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
285
Éditeur
Featherstone Mike, Thrift Nigel, Urry John
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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