Mobilities / John Urry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urry, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation.

Population geography.

Physical Description:

vii, 335 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2007.

Summary:

Issues of movement - of people, things, information, and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organizations. In this major book John Urry 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, social networks and meetings, the nature of places, and alternative mobility futures.

Mobilities is thus both an analysis of different mobilities historically and in the present, and an argument that the social world will be analysed quite differently once people's lives, organizations, states, and global institutions are seen to be dealing with extensive and hugely contested mobility processes. This book rewrites social science through a mobilities paradigm.

Contents:

Part 1 Mobile Worlds

1 Mobilizing Social Life 3

2 'Mobile' Theories and Methods 17

3 The Mobilities Paradigm 44

Part 2 Moving and Communicating

4 Pavements and Paths 63

5 'Public' Trains 90

6 Inhabiting Cars and Roads 112

7 Flying Around 135

8 Connecting and Imaginging 157

Part 3 Societies and Systems on the Move

9 Gates to Heaven and Hell 185

10 Networks 211

11 Meetings 230

12 Places 253

13 Systems and Dark Futures 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745634180

0745634184

0745634192

9780745634197

OCLC:

156816339