Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box / David Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, David, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Technological innovations--History.

Communication.

Mass media--Technological innovations--History.

Mass media.

Telecommunication--Technological innovations.

Telecommunication.

Mobile communication systems.

Communication, International--History.

Communication, International.

Communication--Technological innovations.

Mass media--Technological innovations.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21

Contents:

Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19

1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21

2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno-zones 37

Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57

3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and "New Mobilities" 59

4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77

5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95

6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113

Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131

7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133

8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159

9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405192019

1405192011

9781405192002

1405192003

OCLC:

975173718