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Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects
Contributor(s): Adey, Peter (Author)
ISBN: 140518261X     ISBN-13: 9781405182614
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $41.56  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects
- Transportation | Aviation - General
Dewey: 306.481
LCCN: 2009052085
Series: RGS-IBG Books (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 296 pages
 
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NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011

This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals.

  • Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society
  • Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility
  • Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today
  • Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities
  • Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era