Changing Mobilities
About the Book Series
This series explores the transformations of society, politics and everyday experiences wrought by changing mobilities, and the power of mobilities research to inform constructive responses to these transformations. As a new mobile century is taking shape, international scholars explore motivations, experiences, insecurities, implications and limitations of mobile living, and opportunities and challenges for design in the broadest sense, from policy to urban planning, new media and technology design. With world citizens expected to travel 105 billion kilometres per year in 2050, it is critical to make mobilities research and design inform each other.
Material Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange
March 31, 2021
Material Mobilities explores the material dimension of various forms of mobilities and its implications for society, politics and everyday experiences as well as investigates how materials themselves are on the move. Together the different contributions and perspectives on material mobilities ...
Sea Log: Indian Ocean to New York
1st Edition
By May Joseph
December 18, 2020
The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores. Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement, memory and displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theater of repressive hauntings based on ...
Bicycle Utopias: Imagining Fast and Slow Cycling Futures
1st Edition
By Cosmin Popan
June 30, 2020
Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and ...
Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky, John Urry
December 12, 2019
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering ...
Family Mobility: Reconciling Career Opportunities and Educational Strategy
1st Edition
By Catherine Doherty, Wendy Patton, Paul Shield
December 12, 2019
Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change. This sociological study explores how contemporary families reconcile individual members’ career and education projects within the family unit over time and space, and unpacks the ...
Italian Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Stephanie Hom
December 12, 2019
The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed in from the era of the Grand Tour to the present, and Italians flowed out in massive numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Italians made up the largest voluntary emigration in recorded world ...
Mobilities Design: Urban Designs for Mobile Situations
1st Edition
By Ole B. Jensen, Ditte Bendix Lanng
December 12, 2019
Contemporary society is marked and defined by the ways in which mobile goods, bodies, vehicles, objects, and data are organized, moved and staged. Against the background of the ‘mobilities turn’ this book articulates a new and emerging research field, namely that of ‘mobilities design’. The book ...
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mimi Sheller
December 12, 2019
Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move...
Elite Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Birtchnell, Javier Caletrío
May 24, 2017
Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis—and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth—coincides with stern ...
Dialogues on Mobile Communication
1st Edition
By Adriana de Souza e Silva
October 11, 2016
In this book, top scholars in the field of mobile communication discuss the major issues related to the use of mobile phones in today’s society, such as the tension between private and public, youth mobile culture, creative appropriations of mobile devices, and mobile methods. Each chapter unfolds ...