Phillip Vannini's The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities: Routes Less PDF

By Phillip Vannini

The Cultures of different Mobilities provides a chain of ethnographic reviews, concentrating on the neighborhood cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the standard experience of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them. Compensating for the surplus of idea and feedback in keeping with the proposal of 'hypermobilities', this e-book sheds gentle at the nuanced transformations and idiosyncrasies of mobility, so that it will rediscovering meanings and existence marked by means of flow and immobility. unique, empirical and international case reports are provided by way of a global group of students, exploring the advanced, negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of move. by way of keeping off sweeping generalizations at the deeply hooked up and comfortably cellular nature of society as an entire, this quantity sheds gentle at the range of mobility modes in an obtainable and interdisciplinary shape that might be of key curiosity, to sociologists, geographers and students of human mobility, communique and culture.

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