Research Catalog

Title

Researching and representing mobilities : transdisciplinary encounters / edited by Lesley Murray, Sara Upstone.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Murray, Lesley, 1966-
• Upstone, Sara

Description

xi, 215 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In an arguably increasingly mobile world, mobilities are represented in society in many ways. There is a growing awareness that these representations not only help us understand the complexities of social relations in space but also produce society and space. There is also an increased interest in the adoption of research methodologies that are distinctly mobile. Simultaneously, the contested nature of representation is reflected in current discussions around the capacity for the practices of the mobile and sensuous body to be represented, as some movements are considered non-representable.This book engages with these debates, and, by exploring representations of mobilities in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and in research, it examines the methodological potential of representations and the ways in which they co-produce mobilities"--

Subject

• Spatial behavior > Social aspects
• Movement (Philosophy) > Social aspects
• Cultural geography
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Culture > Study and teaching
• Equality
• Human geography
• Human geography
• Religion and culture
• Science
• Social mobility
• Social sciences
• Social structure
• Society
• Sociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1.Mobilising Representations: Dialogues, Embodiment and Power; Lesley Murray and Sara Upstone2.Power and Representations of Mobility: from the Nexus between Emotional and Sensuous Embodiment and Discursive and Ideational Construction; Anne Jensen3.'Footprints are the only fixed point': Mobilities in Postcolonial Fiction; Sara Upstone4.Constructing the Mobile City: Gendered Mobilities in London fiction; Lesley Murray and Hannah Vincent5.A Motor Flight Through Early Twentieth-century Consciousness: Capturing the Driving-event 1905-1935; Lynne Pearce6.Reading the Mobile City through Street Art: Belfast's Murals; Lesley Murray7.Drawing the Motorway: Mobile Representations in Design and Architecture; Susan Robertson8.The Pan Flute Musicians at Sergels Torg: Between Global Flows and Specificities of Place; Karolina Doughty and Maja Lagerqvist9.Travelling the Journey: Understanding Mobility Trajectories by Recreating Research Paths; Paola Jirón and Luis Iturra 10. Conclusion; Lesley Murray and Sara Upstone.

ISBN

• 9781137346650 (hardback)
• 1137346655 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014019765

OCLC

873725550

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library