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Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles the between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies and the politics of mobility.
Sommario
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Networked Urban Mobilities
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Sven Kesselring
Globalizing Networked Urbanism: Entanglement of Elite and Subaltern Mobilities
Mimi Sheller
Mobile ‘Pseudonymous Strangers’: How Chance Encounters Constitute Sociality in Digitally Augmented and Location-Aware Urban Public Places
Christian Licoppe
The Worlds of Offshoring
John Urry
Networked Urbanism and Disaster
Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Katrina Petersen, and Rachel Oliphant
Vertical Mobilities: Confronting the Politics of Elevators in Tall Buildings and Ultra-Deep Mining
Stephen Graham
Mobilities Futures
Vincent Kaufmann
Performing or Deconstructing the Mobile Subject? Linking Mobility Concepts, Research Designs, and Methods
Katharina Manderscheid
Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Perspective
Ulrich Beck
Index
Info autore
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Associate Professor in Sustainable Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and science and technology studies which she has been using to investigate praxes of mobilities and their significance for (future) cities. She is the co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network, and the co-founder and co-editor of the new journal
Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis). She is the author of the book
Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom.
Sven Kesselring is a Research Professor in Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities and the director of the Master of Science program Sustainable Mobilities at Nüertingen-Geislingen University (NGU), Germany. His research focuses on the sociology of (auto)mobiles, social theory, and the impact of technology and digitalization on everyday and professional lives. He is the founder and co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network and co-director of the joint PhD program Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Cultures of TU Munich and NGU. He is co-founder and co-editor of the new journal
Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis) and Studies in Mobility and Transport at Springer VS. He has edited several books including
Aeromobilities (with Saulo Cwerner and John Urry).
Riassunto
Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities explores different conceptual and theoretical angles the between social practices and urban environments, culture, infrastructures, technologies and the politics of mobility.
Testo aggiuntivo
"An odyssey of physical, social, cultural and virtual mobilities. Clear-eyed and compelling. The book really is a milestone."
Professor Anthony Elliott, Dean of External Engagement, University of South Australia
