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Ferry tales : mobility, place, and time on Canada's west coast / Phillip Vannini.
Lippincott Library HE5785.B7 V36 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vannini, Phillip
- Series:
- Innovative ethnographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ferries--Social aspects--British Columbia.
- Ferries.
- Transportation--Social aspects--British Columbia.
- Transportation.
- Migration, Internal--Social aspects--British Columbia.
- Migration, Internal.
- Migration, Internal--Social aspects.
- Transportation--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- British Columbia.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility and place and culture in greater depth, and also to connect this lived experience on the British Columbia coast with many other social habitats. In the process, readers are introduced to social theorists illumination of this social life the value of thinking and seeing theoretically. Ferry Tales inaugurates a new series entitled Innotavite Ethnographies for Routledge. The purpose of this series is to use the new digital technology to capture a richer, more multidimensional view of social life than was otherwise done in the classic, print tradition of ethnography, while maintaining the traditional strengths of classic, ethnographic analysis.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Before Departure 1
- Chapter 1 A Queens Drowning 3
- Chapter 2 Ways of Moving 11
- Chapter 3 Getting to the BC Coast 16
- Chapter 4 The Making of Ferry Tales 23
- Part 2 Welcome Aboard 31
- Chapter 5 Travel as Performance 33
- Chapter 6 Of Ferries and Their Passengers 40
- Chapter 7 Ferry (Techno-)Culture 49
- Chapter 8 In the Kids' Zone 59
- Part 3 A Different Kind of Place 67
- Chapter 9 Insulation and Isolation 69
- Chapter 10 The Feel of Island and Coastal Life 75
- Chapter 11 En Route to Heaven? 84
- Chapter 12 Removed 91
- Part 4 In Time, Out of Time 99
- Chapter 13 Island Time 101
- Chapter 14 Speed ... Sort of... 105
- Chapter 15 Keeping the Rhythm 112
- Chapter 16 Axe We There Yet? 119
- Part 5 Ferries, Power, and Politics 127
- Chapter 17 Constellations of (In-)Convenience 129
- Chapter 18 Danger: Keep Off the Rocks 139
- Chapter 19 More Cracks in the Water 146
- Chapter 20 Changing Life on the Coast 153
- Part 6 Performing Elusive Mobilities 159
- Chapter 21 The Taskscape of Travel 161
- Chapter 22 How to Catch a Ferry 167
- Chapter 23 Ritual, Play, and Drama 175
- Chapter 24 Elusiveness 182
- Part 7 Waiting for a Ride 189
- Chapter 25 Time Thieves 191
- Chapter 26 Dwelling in Lineups 197
- Chapter 27 Mind the Gap 205
- Chapter 28 Another Sailing Wait 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415883061
- 0415883067
- 9780415883078
- 0415883075
- 9780203136102
- 0203136101
- OCLC:
- 778473742
- Online:
- http://ferrytales.innovativeethnographies.net
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