Research Catalog

Title

The politics of proximity : mobility and immobility in practice / edited by Giuseppina Pellegrino.

Author

Pellegrino, Giuseppina, 1974-

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2011.

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Description

xvii, 157 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures. This book focuses in particular on the 'political' dimension of mobility and immobility, which plays a key role in establishing patterns of proximity in real and virtual co-presence. Proximity is seen as the result of choices, negotiations and practices carried out in different settings. Drawing from different literature streams (Activity Theory, Organization Studies and Science and Technology Studies), this book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile work - are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this book offers a cross-cultural and innovative theoretical framing of issues linked to mobility, through the link with immobility and proximity.

Series Statement

Transport and society

Uniform Title

Transport and society

Subject

• Social mobility
• Transportation > Social aspects
• Space > Social aspects
• Time > Social aspects
• Social Mobility
• social mobility
• Social mobility
• Time > Social aspects
• Transportation > Social aspects
• Soziale Mobilität
• Transport
• Mobilität
• Transport
• Zeit
• Social rörlighet
• Transportväsen > sociala aspekter
• Transporter > sociala aspekter
• Tid och rum > sociala aspekter

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Studying (im)mobility through a politics of proximity / Giuseppina Pellegrino -- Space, mobility and new boundaries: the redefinition of social action / Maria Cristina Marchetti -- Mobility and the notion of attainable reach / Kjell Engelbrekt -- The harvest of Dionysus: mobility/proximity, indigenous migrants and relational machines / Carmelo Buscema -- The semiotics of (im)mobilities: two discursive case studies of the system of automobility / Chaim Noy -- Mobility after war: re-negotiating belonging in Jaffna, Sri Lanka / Eva Gerharz -- Human costs of mobility: on management in multinational companies / Laura Gherardi -- Urban mobility, accessibility and social equity: a comparative study in four European metropolitan areas / Matteo Colleoni -- Mobility practices in Santiago de Chile: the consequences of restricted urban accessibility / Paola Jiró́n.

ISBN

• 9780754677666
• 0754677664
• 9780754695141
• 075469514X

LCCN

2010045782

OCLC

• ocn678924303
• 678924303
• SCSB-14662731

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library