Research Catalog

Title

Aerial life : spaces, mobilities, affects / Peter Adey.

Author

Adey, Peter.

Publication

Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Description

xii, 283 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. It brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society.

Series Statement

RGS-IBG book series

Uniform Title

RGS-IBG book series.

Subject

• Geschichte 1920-2010
• Aeronautics > Social aspects
• Air travel > Social aspects
• Human geography
• Social mobility
• Flugreise
• Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein
• Luftfahrt
• Soziale Mobilität
• Sozialer Wandel
• Social Mobility

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Prologue -- Aerial Life -- Powering Up Aerial Geographies -- The Organization of the Book -- Part I. Becoming Aerial -- 2. Birth of the Aerial Body -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- The Flesh of the Aerial Youth -- Simulation -- Conclusion -- 3. The Projection and Performance of Airspace -- Introduction -- Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory -- Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power -- Conclusion -- Part II. Governing Aerial Life -- 4. Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics -- Introduction -- Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing -- Populations -- Techniques of the Observer /Observed -- Three-Dimensional Vision -- Conclusion -- 5. Profiling Machines -- Introduction -- Imagining the Pilot /Passenger -- Sorting -- Modifying -- Conclusion -- Part III. Aerial Aggression -- 6. Aerial Environments -- Introduction -- The Emergence of a Target -- Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare -- Air Conditioning -- Conclusion -- 7. Subjects under Siege -- Warning -- Introduction -- The Anatomy of Panic -- Imaginations and Urgencies -- Vigilance and the Social as Circuit -- Entrainment -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Environments -- Futures -- Aerial Turns.

ISBN

• 9781405182621 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9781405182614 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1405182628 (hc : alk. paper)
• 140518261X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009052085

OCLC

496726467

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library