Automobilities

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Automobilities presents one of the first examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Zusammenfassung 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. Automobilities presents one of the first examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Mike Featherstone The ¿System¿ of Automobility - John Urry Driving in the City - Nigel Thrift The Driver-Car - Tim Dant Mobility and Safety - Jörg Beckmann Automobility and National Identity - Tim Edensor Representation, Geography and Driving Practice Cars and Nations - Rudy J Koshar Anglo-German Perspectives on Automobility Between the World Wars Driving Places - Peter Merriman Marc Augé, Non-Places and the Geographies of England¿s M1 Motorway Three Ages of the Automobile - David Gartman The Cultural Logics of the Car Auto Couture - David Inglis Thinking the Car in Post-War France Automotive Emotions - Mimi Sheller Feeling the Car Automobility and the Power of Sound - Michael Bull Doing Officework on the Motorway - Eric Laurier

Product details

• Authors: Mike (EDT)/ Thrift Featherstone, Mike Thrift Featherstone
• Assisted by: Mike Featherstone (Editor), Featherstone Mike (Editor), Nigel Thrift (Editor), Thrift Nigel (Editor), John Urry (Editor), Professor John Urry (Editor), Urry John (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2005
• EAN: 9781412910897
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-1089-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Motor cars: general interest, Social and cultural anthropology