Staging mobilities / Ole B. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Ole B., author.

Series:

International library of sociology.

International library of sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Social mobility.

Communication.

Transportation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a 'mobilities turn'. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not 'just happen'. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and lived as people are 'staging themselves' (from below). Staging mobilities is a dynamic process between 'being staged' (for example, being stopped at traffic lights) and the 'mobile staging' of interacting individuals (negotiating a passage on the pavement).Staging Mobilities is ab

Contents:

Staging mobilities : review and positioning

Staging mobilities : introduction

The mobile city : reviewing and positioning

Framing mobilities

Physical settings, material spaces and design

Facework, flow and the city

Mobile embodied performances

Practices of mobilities

Networked technologies and the will to connection

Negotiation in motion : unpacking a geography of mobility

Metro mobilities : the production of lived mobility in urban metro systems

Towards a sociology of staging mobilities

Materialities of mobilities : learning from the design fields

Staging mobilities : conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781135089757

1135089752

9780203070062

0203070062

9781299280496

1299280498

9781135089764

1135089760

OCLC:

830161033