Mobile Lives: SELF, EXCESS AND NATURE

by Anthony Elliott

2021-01-08 18:33:16

How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21stcentury? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative st... Read more

How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21stcentury? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?

In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of ''globals'', and intimate relationships at-a-distance. Elliott and Urry introduce a range of new concepts -miniaturized mobilities, affect storage, network capital, meetingness, neighbourhood lives, portable personhood, ambient place, globals- to capture the specific ways in which mobility systems intersect with mobile lives.

This book represents a novel approach in "post-carbon" social theory. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduates and teachers in sociology, social theory, politics, geography, international relations, cultural studies, and economics and business studies.

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Book Details

File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages208
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date July 11, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415480222
Anthony Elliott is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia, where he is Research Professor of Sociology and Dean of External Engagement. He is...

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