The mobilities paradigm : discourses and ideologies / by Marcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid and Christophe Mincke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endres, Marcel, author.

Manderscheid, Katharina, author.

Mincke, Christophe, author.

Series:

Transport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation--Social aspects.

Transportation.

Population geography.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016]

Summary:

Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material world but also takes place against the background of changing discourses, scientific theories and conceptualisations and knowledge. Within the formation of these mobilities discourses, the social sciences constitute a relevant actor. Focussing on mobility as an object of knowledge from a Foucauldian perspective rather than a given entity within the historical contingency of movement, this book asks: How do discourses and ideologies structure the normative substance, social meanings, and the lived reality of mobilities? What are the real world effects of/on the will and the ability to be mobile? And, how do these lived realities, in turn, invigorate or interfere with certain discourses and ideologies of mobility? Book jacket.

Contents:

From mobility to its ideology: when mobility becomes an imperative / Christophe Mincke

Identity construction and mobility in pilgrims' and travelers' writings: contemporary reports about the Way of St. James and the Hippie Trail / Frank Neubert

Instrumentalising the 'mobility argument': discursive patterns in the Romanian media / Camelia Beciu and Mirela Lazar

The discursive accomplishment of rationalities in the automobility regime / Laura Bang Lindegaard

Who does the move? affirmation or de-construction of the solitary mobile subject / Katharina Manderscheid

Passengers without havens? discourses on the hypermobile subject and self-conceptions of frequent travellers / Marcel Endres

'Inappropriate' Europeans. On fear, space, and Roma mobility / Birgitta Frello

For the power, against the power: the political discourses of high-speed rail in Europe, the United States and China / Ander Audikana and Zenhua Chen

Small technologies and big systems / Thomas Birtchnell and John Urry

From the urban planning discourse to a circulation dispositif

an epistemological approach to the mobility turn / Pauline Wolff.

Notes:

"Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material world but also takes place against the background of changing discourses, scientific theories and conceptualisations and knowledge. Within the formation of these mobilities discourses, the social sciences constitute a relevant actor."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472429346

1472429346

9781472429353

1472429354

9781472429360

1472429362

OCLC:

929586206