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University of Minnesota Press The Contours of Americas Cold War
Book SynopsisHow new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power.Trade Review"The Contours of America's Cold War offers a vital new contribution to American studies. Matthew Farish shows how the geopolitics of the Cold War required a new cartography, producing a wide ranging transformation in how Americans understood urban, national, and planetary space. It breaks new ground in showing how the human sciences were militarized under the logics of global threat during the early Cold War. Essential reading for anyone investigating the deep roots of American militarism or the spatial contours of our modern world." —Joseph Masco, University of Chicago"The Contours of America’s Cold War is an outstanding book directed at understanding the varied geographical underpinnings of the conduct of the Cold War in the U.S. context from 1945 to 1960. Farish addresses the global, national, laboratory/think tank, and urban dimensions of how the Cold War created a new American socio-political consciousness that has not yet been left behind." —John Agnew, UCLATable of ContentsContents Introduction: A History of Cold War Spaces 1. Global Views: Geopolitics, Science, and Culture 2. Regional Intelligence: The Militarization of Geographical Knowledge 3. Illuminating the Terrain: Social Science Finds Its Targets 4. The Cybernetic Continent: North America as Defense Laboratory 5. Anxious Urbanism: Strategies for the Atomic City Conclusion: Into Space Acknowledgments Notes Publication History Index
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University of Minnesota Press Mobile Urbanism
Book SynopsisHow knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide.Trade Review"At the core of this book is the recognition that far and near no longer be taken for granted. This makes it possible to explore geographies of responsibility as they stretch across space, highlighting linkages that are otherwise rather too easy to avoid. It also makes it possible to explore the ways in which apparently distant phenomena can be drawn in by political actors to reinforce their position, to develop political initiatives, resolve or generate political controversy, and build political power and authority." —Allan Cochrane, from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword, Allan Cochrane Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power, Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward 1. A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place, Doreen Massey 2. The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality, Jennifer Robinson 3. Creative Moments: Working Culture, Through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism, Jamie Peck 4. Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward 5. Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy, Eugene McCann 6. The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City, Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali 7. Airports, Territoriality, and Urban Governance, Donald McNeill Conclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (re)Territorialization, and Comparison, Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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University of Minnesota Press Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban
Book SynopsisA bold rethinking of urban political ecologyTrade Review"Everyday Environmentalism makes a compelling argument about how new environmental understandings can emerge from a critique of everyday life. Moving seamlessly between theory and practice in mutually illuminating ways, this book sheds exciting new light on the conditions of possibility for a radical socionatural politics." —Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley"Everyday Environmentalism provides access to a host of historically complex ideas central to the evolution of urban political ecology and beyond. Alex Loftus’s depth of knowledge within social theory, urban studies, and socionature studies is robust." —Nik Heynen, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Emerging Moments in an Urban Political Ecology1. The Urbanization of Nature: Neil Smith and Posthumanist Controversies2. Sensuous Socio-Natures: The Concept of Nature in Marx3. Cyborg Consciousness: Questioning the Dialectics of Nature in Lukács4. When Theory Becomes a Material Force: Gramsci’s Conjunctural Natures5. Cultural Praxis as the Production of Nature: Lefebvrean NaturesConclusion: The Nature of Everyday LifeNotesIndex
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Duke University Press In Search of the Rain Forest
Book SynopsisCollects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders.Trade Review“In Search of the Rain Forest dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves ‘rain forest studies’ into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends.”—Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon“This is an immensely thought-provoking and entertaining book. It makes a compelling case for an approach to the rain forest that eschews environmental fundamentalism in favor of a rich and multilayered understanding of the social complexities of rain forest practice and representation.”—Raymond L. Bryant, author of The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Mapping Out The Quest In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3 Rain Forest Icons Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69 The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101 Rain Forest and Jungle In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133 Spectacles of Wildness Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167 Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204 The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246 Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285 Contributors 305 Index 309
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Duke University Press Landscapes of Power and Identity
Book SynopsisThis comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonizationTrade Review“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”— David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University“This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”—Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910“Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . Landscapes of Power and Identity will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” -- Rachel St. John * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Abbreviations xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1 1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19 2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55 3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89 4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117 5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 162 6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 196 7. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 240 8. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295 Notes 327 Glossary 375 Bibliography 385 Index 423
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Duke University Press Tracking Europe
Book SynopsisA critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. It interrogates European discourses on free movement and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary debates and practices in Europe, social and cultural theories, historical texts, media representations, and critical art projects.Trade Review“Tracking Europe is a very timely work that explores some of the most pertinent and problematic issues involved in thinking and rethinking Europe. The book’s merits lie in both the analyses and ethnographic details of specific sites in which Europe is constructed, from port-authority surveillance to tourism and institutionalized cities of culture, and in its critical appropriation of noted studies in the fields of cultural studies and migration studies, theories of travel, and the philosophy of belonging.”—Iain Chambers, author of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity“Tracking Europe is an important book, very relevant to current world affairs. Ginette Verstraete transposes political and economic issues into a critical space of engagement with culture and the arts in a theoretically innovative and lively manner.”—Caren Kaplan, author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of DisplacementTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Mobility, Technology, and the Politics of Location in Europe 1 1. Heading for Europe: The Global Itinerary of an Idea 19 2. A Grand Tour through European Tourism 41 3. Europe in an Age of Digital Cultural Capitals 61 4. High-Tech Security, Mobility, and Migration 87 5. Diasporas in the B-Zones: Artistic Counterterritories 111 Notes 155 Bibliography & Filmography 181 Index 195
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Duke University Press Traveling from New Spain to Mexico
Book SynopsisHow colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio García Cubas.Trade Review“Traveling from New Spain to Mexico is an important book. It is distinctive in that it situates what we traditionally recognize as cartography in relation to post-independence Mexico’s broader visual culture, patriotic and geographic literature, and even oratory. In addition, Magali M. Carrera grounds the work of late-nineteenth-century historians and geographers in the colonial experience of New Spain, allowing us to see how visual tropes changed across several centuries and in response to Mexico’s independence and early national experience.”—James R. Akerman, editor of The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire“In this original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically rich book, Magali M. Carrera situates Mexican art and cartography in national and international contexts, gives the mapmaker Antonio García Cubas the scholarly attention he has long deserved, and connects his projects not only to nineteenth-century visual culture but also to colonial visual culture and travel narratives from the early independence era. It is a superb book, one that scholars of Mexican and Latin American history, art history, visual culture, and cultural studies will read and admire for years to come.”—Raymond B. Craib, author of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes“The newly independent nations of Latin America imagined themselves in ways that linked specific pasts to new, national identities. While each emerging nation-state did this slightly differently, Magali Carrera shows that Mexican intellectuals did this by visually constructing—mapping, drawing, photographing, exhibiting and even performing— idealized narratives of Mexican history and geography that defined what it meant to be Mexican. And, Carrera does this in a well-written and visually profuse book that should interest Latin Americanist geographers working with questions of visual culture, national identity, or cartographic intention.” -- Karl Offen * Journal of Latin American History *“Traveling from New Spain to Mexico is a thoughtful and richly detailed book that seeks to illuminate ‘the complex and diverse spatial practices through which Mexico came to locate and define its national space’ (p. xiv). The book certainly achieves this goal…. This book will be important for historical geographers because it amplifies our understanding of how a distinctive visual culture emerges within the dynamic social contexts of a newly-independent nation. Although the book focuses on the Mexican case, Carrera’s methodology can be applied to other newly-independent countries, thereby expanding its potential readership wider than the title suggests…. Theoretically grounded in critical cartography, rich in historical detail, and laced throughout with over 90 illustrations, this is not light reading. Expect to spend some time with this sophisticated and delightful book.” -- Richard Hunter * Journal of Historical Geography *“Traveling from New Spain to Mexico is well researched and documented in primary and secondary sources…. Carrera’s clear and jargon-free writing makes the book enjoyable to read, and the abundant, well-chosen illustrations add to its enjoyment.” -- Paula Rebert * Hispanic American Historical Review *“The elegant sweep of visual history within which Carrera places sophisticated readings of the Mexican cartographer’s participation in nation-building discourse is a considerable achievement indeed. The extensively illustrated text and accessible prose will encourage specialist and non-specialist readers alike to get inside the visual narratives created by García Cubas in mapping his many Mexicos.” -- Deborah Toner * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Research and Theoretical Perspectives 1 1. Making the Invisible Visible 19 2. Locating New Spain: Spanish Mappings 39 3. Touring Mexico: A Journey to the Land of the Aztecs 63 4. Imagining the Nation and Forging the State: Mexican Nationalist Imagery—1810–1860 109 5. Finding Mexico: The García Cubas Projects—1850–1880 144 6. Traveling from New Spain to Mexico—1880–1911 184 7. Performing the Nation 232 Notes 245 Bibliography 277 Index 317
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Duke University Press Placing Outer Space
Book SynopsisIn Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT''s labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.Trade Review"To become an exoplanet scientist, Messeri shows (in part by undergoing some training herself), is to learn to see and convey these abstractions as something more relatable — as 'super-Earths' or 'mini-Neptunes' or such. 'To excite the community about a particular visualization,' as Messeri nicely puts it, 'is to convince them that the image contains a world.' And to really excite the community, presumably, is to convince them that a world contains little green men." -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Placing Outer Space is a welcome addition to the literature on planetary science. Not only has Messeri achieved what has eluded so many writers—putting humans at the center of the account—she has also succeeded in crafting a compelling narrative of discovery." -- Matthew Shindell * Physics Today *"Messeri’s book is an excellent addition to both the increasing scholarship concerning the cosmos in science and technology studies and the resurgent field of outer space anthropology. Her thorough analysis of place-making practices by an often insulated community is accompanied by her vivid and absorbing ethnographic writing. Placing Outer Space is an excellent example of academic writing that is supremely beneficial and accessible to both the academy and the public" -- Taylor R. Genovese * LSE Review of Books *"Messeri is to be commended for crafting an engaging account that is fully accessible to an outside audience. Her beautiful ethnographic narrative and clear applications of theory make her readers feel comfortable. . . . For anthropologists attempting to pen a scholarly monograph that engages both the broader public and the community they study, this is a worthy example." -- Janet Vertesi * American Anthropologist *"Lisa Messeri's spirit of adventurous ethnographic contact carries the day, delivering new insights into off-Earth explorations by experts and amateurs alike. In bringing us, up close, to those engaged in fashioning new home worlds and remapping the cosmos, Messeri urges us to follow the future making. That enterprise is in good hands." -- Debbora Battaglia * American Ethnologist *"A thoughtful investigation of planetary science. . . . Students of the history of science and astronomy will find many new ideas here that are worth pondering." -- Maria Lane * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A first-rate example of ethnographic research into the epistemological frameworks that shape the work of astronomers engaged in planetary science. Messeri has produced a superb discussion of how scientists move the unfamiliar into the realm of the familiar." -- John W. Traphagan * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. From Outer Space to Outer Place 1 1. Narrating Mars in Utah's Desert 25 2. Mapping Mars in Silicon Valley 71 3. Visualizing Alien Worlds 111 4. Inhabiting Other Earths 149 Conclusion. Navigating the Infinite Cosmos 189 Notes 197 References 211 Index 231
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Duke University Press Placing Outer Space
Book SynopsisIn Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT''s labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.Trade Review"To become an exoplanet scientist, Messeri shows (in part by undergoing some training herself), is to learn to see and convey these abstractions as something more relatable — as 'super-Earths' or 'mini-Neptunes' or such. 'To excite the community about a particular visualization,' as Messeri nicely puts it, 'is to convince them that the image contains a world.' And to really excite the community, presumably, is to convince them that a world contains little green men." -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Placing Outer Space is a welcome addition to the literature on planetary science. Not only has Messeri achieved what has eluded so many writers—putting humans at the center of the account—she has also succeeded in crafting a compelling narrative of discovery." -- Matthew Shindell * Physics Today *"Messeri’s book is an excellent addition to both the increasing scholarship concerning the cosmos in science and technology studies and the resurgent field of outer space anthropology. Her thorough analysis of place-making practices by an often insulated community is accompanied by her vivid and absorbing ethnographic writing. Placing Outer Space is an excellent example of academic writing that is supremely beneficial and accessible to both the academy and the public" -- Taylor R. Genovese * LSE Review of Books *"Messeri is to be commended for crafting an engaging account that is fully accessible to an outside audience. Her beautiful ethnographic narrative and clear applications of theory make her readers feel comfortable. . . . For anthropologists attempting to pen a scholarly monograph that engages both the broader public and the community they study, this is a worthy example." -- Janet Vertesi * American Anthropologist *"Lisa Messeri's spirit of adventurous ethnographic contact carries the day, delivering new insights into off-Earth explorations by experts and amateurs alike. In bringing us, up close, to those engaged in fashioning new home worlds and remapping the cosmos, Messeri urges us to follow the future making. That enterprise is in good hands." -- Debbora Battaglia * American Ethnologist *"A thoughtful investigation of planetary science. . . . Students of the history of science and astronomy will find many new ideas here that are worth pondering." -- Maria Lane * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A first-rate example of ethnographic research into the epistemological frameworks that shape the work of astronomers engaged in planetary science. Messeri has produced a superb discussion of how scientists move the unfamiliar into the realm of the familiar." -- John W. Traphagan * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. From Outer Space to Outer Place 1 1. Narrating Mars in Utah's Desert 25 2. Mapping Mars in Silicon Valley 71 3. Visualizing Alien Worlds 111 4. Inhabiting Other Earths 149 Conclusion. Navigating the Infinite Cosmos 189 Notes 197 References 211 Index 231
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John Wiley & Sons Flora of Mount Rainier National Park
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Magdalena de Cao
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Their Way of Writing
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection collectingtheprecolumbianpast
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£30.56
Harvard University Press The New Testament in Byzantium
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Harvard University Press The Moral Resonance of Arab Media
Book SynopsisThis book studies contemporary Arab political poetry, providing insights into how modern Arab media forms are shaped by language and culture. By examining lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, it shows how tribalism is a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history.Trade ReviewThis brilliant interdisciplinary work on media and tribal poetry in Yemen by a superb Arabist is at once a significant contribution to media studies, linguistic pragmatics, poetics, and the anthropology of the Middle East. The scholarship is thorough, carefully building on previous research, but also departing from it in original and imaginative ways… While acknowledging that the two aesthetics of circulation and resonance are integral to each other, Miller argues that it is particularly the aesthetics of ‘resonance’ that is important to understanding how moral authority, political order (or disorder), and artistic success are debated by Yemenis. This idea, and the claims the author makes for it, will surely occasion lively discussion and debate. -- Steven C. Caton * Middle East Journal *
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Harvard University Press Confucianism Ecology The Interrelation of
Book SynopsisThese 16 essays address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the historical describes the tradition's views of nature, social ethics, and cosmology; a dialogical approach links Confucianism to other traditions; an examination of engaged Confucianism looks at its involvement in concrete ecological issues.Trade ReviewThe ethical thought of Confucianism is often understood as being grounded in a thoroughgoing anthropocentrism, emphasizing as it does the proper ways for humans in various institutional positions and social classes to relate to one another. This anthology provides a corrective to that view and demonstrates that it is at best a partial picture of Confucian thought. Sixteen papers are included, and together they give the reader a sense of the conceptual tools that Confucianism has at its disposal for thinking about ecology and current environmental problems. Many of the essays draw from historical sources; a few look at the relationship between environmental problems and contemporary Confucian thinking. The authors do not attempt to whitewash or paint an unrealistically rosy picture of Confucianism's relation to the environment. Rather, they represent intellectually honest and realistic attempts to come to terms with Confucianism's past relationships and to envision ways in which Confucian thought can offer help in resolving current environmental crises. Most of the papers presuppose no special or extensive background knowledge of either ecology or Confucianism. -- M. A. Michael * Choice *
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Edward Elgar Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration
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Edward Elgar Handbook of Gender and Mobilities
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Edward Elgar Understanding Policy Mobility
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Edward Elgar How to Foster Diversity Equity Inclusion and
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Edward Elgar Institutions Culture and the Chinese City The Unique Urban Development Trajectories of Modern China
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Edward Elgar A Research Agenda for Senior Tourism
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Edward Elgar Rethinking Events
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Edward Elgar Handbook of Platform Urbanism
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Understanding Personal Mobilities
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘We are living in hybrid worlds - increasingly. Physical and digital mobilities intermingle, melt together and bring about new forms of sociality and community. Aharon Kellerman has been developing his approach of personal mobilities as a sophisticated framework to understand and analyze the structural transformations of everyday and professional life. Here in this book, he brings together years of research and writing and presents the stunning complexity and plurality of mobilities, space and social life to scholars, students and mobility enthusiasts.’ -- Sven Kesselring, University of Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany‘Aharon Kellerman's book is an essential contribution to the understanding of mobilities. Based on the notions of movement and travel and illustrated by observations made during the Covid-19 pandemic, the book proposes a heuristic approach covering both existing and new knowledge, side by side with expectations regarding future personal mobilities in the upcoming years.’ -- Vincent Kaufmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi 1 Introduction: personal mobilities and their contexts 1 1.1 The nature of personal mobilities 1 1.2 Characteristics of personal mobilities 2 1.3 Action spaces for personal mobilities 8 1.4 Personal autonomy in mobility 10 1.5 Summary 16 2 Motivations for routine physical personal mobilities 17 2.1 Introduction 17 2.2 Movement and travel 19 2.3 Movement motivations 21 2.4 Travel motivations 23 2.5 Designated motivations for frequent travel: commuting and tourism 26 2.6 Mobility motivations and trip structures 27 2.7 Mobile persons and their motivations 28 2.8 Conclusion 29 3 Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Fixity 32 3.3 Mobility 33 3.4 Relationships between fixity and mobility 35 3.5 Fixity and mobility in virtual space 36 3.6 Leading implications of fixity and mobility 39 3.7 Basic human spatial requirements and human activities 39 3.8 The fixed and mobile humans 41 3.9 Fixity, mobility, and spatial entities 42 3.10 Interpretation of human spatial pulses 43 3.11 Conclusion 44 4 Proximity, interaction, and distance in physical and virtual personal mobilities 46 4.1 Introduction 46 4.2 Contemporary interpretations for proximity, distance, and space/location 48 4.3 The domination of distance and space: pre-Internet social-spatial interaction 50 4.4 Internet and smartphone technologies: distance, location, and space 52 4.5 The optionality of distance: the perspective of human choice 58 4.6 The preference for proximity 61 4.7 Proximity in individuals’ economic activities 62 4.8 Conclusion 63 5 Everyday carry of mobility items by individuals 66 5.1 Introduction 66 5.2 Everyday carry 68 5.3 Mobility-related EDC 69 5.4 Everydayness interpretations for mobility-related EDC items 74 5.5 Mobility interpretations for mobility-related EDC items 77 5.6 Conclusion 79 6 Personal (im)mobilities 81 6.1 Introduction 81 6.2 Fixity and immobility 82 6.3 Immobility and work 84 6.4 Travel and immobility 84 6.5 Other forms of immobility 86 6.6 Digital mobility and immobility 86 6.7 (Im)mobilities during COVID-19 lockdowns 87 6.8 Post-COVID-19 immobilities 89 6.9 Conclusion 92 7 Personal mobilities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic 94 7.1 Introduction 94 7.2 Functional and spatial expressions of pre-COVID-19 personal daily mobilities 97 7.3 Spatial expressions of personal periodical touristic mobilities 98 7.4 Daily and periodical personal mobilities during COVID-19 times 98 7.5 New habit formations for personal mobilities during COVID-19 times 100 7.6 Post-COVID-19 daily personal mobilities 102 7.7 Post-COVID-19 periodical personal touristic mobilities 104 7.8 Conclusion 105 8 Newly emerging personal mobility modes and the post-COVID-19 city 108 8.1 Introduction 108 8.2 Electric and Internet-based mobilities in the 2020s 110 8.3 Comparative parameters for electrified and Internetized road transport and communications 113 8.4 Individuals and the electrification and Internetization of transport and communications 115 8.5 Electricity-based and Internet-dependent mobile society 117 8.6 Spatial and urban effects of mass adoption of EVs and AVs 118 8.7 Conclusion 120 9 Summaries and future perspectives 122 9.1 Book summary 122 9.2 Chapter summaries 124 9.3 Future personal mobilities and artificial text production 131 9.4 Future mobile persons 133 References 135 Index 151
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Edward Elgar How to use Mixed Methods in Tourism Research
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Edward Elgar Social Cohesion and Resilience through Citizen
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Edward Elgar Elgar Encyclopedia of City and Place Branding
Book SynopsisThis Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field of city and place branding. Authored by nearly 150 experts from across the globe, it covers a wide variety of disciplines, methodologies and perspectives, highlighting cutting-edge developments and exploring avenues for future research.
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Edward Elgar Understanding the Urban Sharing Economy
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Edward Elgar Dialogues for Degrowth Transdisciplinary
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Edward Elgar Arts Heritage and Performative Politics
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Edward Elgar Innovations in Innovation Policy
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Edward Elgar Leadership in Tourism and Hospitality
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Edward Elgar A Research Agenda for Tourism and Risk
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Teaching Human Geography Theories and Practice
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This extremely readable book shows geography to be the world subject. More than this, it argues that “students who learn to think geographically … discover a new way of seeing the world”. In the context of Anthropocene, the educational potential of geography is therefore vast – but is not guaranteed. This book expertly melds theoretical perspectives about ‘learning’ with some brilliant examples of structured teaching and thus makes a fine contribution to the development of geography education in practice.’ -- David Lambert, UCL Institute of Education, UK‘There has arguably never been a more urgent need for young people to learn how to think geographically at a high level of proficiency. This book demonstrates the significance of geography’s powerful knowledge for understanding human systems with many practical applications to support high quality geography instruction.’ -- Michael Solem, Texas State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Donald Zeigler xv PART I THEORIES AND PRACTICE IN THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY 1 Introduction to theories and practice in thinking geographically 2 Erin Hogan Fouberg and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 2 Thinking geographically 11 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 3 Learning geographic concepts 39 Erin Hogan Fouberg 4 Learning, visualizing, and thinking through maps 58 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 5 Personalizing geographic knowledge through fieldwork 86 Erin Hogan Fouberg 6 Plasticity and change: lifelong geographic learning 100 Erin Hogan Fouberg PART II EXERCISES IN GEOGRAPHIC THINKING 7 Introduction to exercises to promote geographic thinking and learning 112 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith and Erin Hogan Fouberg 8 Engaging group-based exercises 116 Larianne Collins, Erin Hogan Fouberg, Jody Smothers-Marcello, Jamie L. Strickland, Caitlin Finlayson, Sunita George, Amanda Rees, and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 9 Powerful field-based and place-based exercises 178 Raymond Greene, Jacqueline L. Waite, William G. Moseley, Matthew R. Cook, and Alex Oberle 10 Integrative project-based exercises 209 Thomas R. Craig, Leslie McLees, and Ronald V. Kalafsky Index 229
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Edward Elgar Handbook on Climate Mobility
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Edward Elgar Food and Beverage Tourism on Islands
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Edward Elgar Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripher Concepts Diagnosis Dilemmas
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary Research Companion sheds light on territories located outside or far from urban centers. It discusses in detail the peripheralization occurring in these regions including low levels of social and economic progress, reduced infrastructure, migration outflow, and other challenges.
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Edward Elgar A Research Agenda for Economic Geography
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability
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Edward Elgar Publishing Uncertainty Innovation and the City
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book investigates the complex nature of urban systems, exploring how uncertainty plays a crucial role in understanding cities. Daniele Chiffi and Stefano Moroni develop a relational theory to examine cities as dynamic networks of interaction between people and objects, rather than as fixed structures.
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Edward Elgar Geographies of Religious Spaces and Sacred
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Edward Elgar North Pacific Perspectives on the Arctic Looking
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Edward Elgar A Research Agenda for Tourism Digitalisation and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis timely book explores how the twin transitions of digitalisation and sustainability are reshaping tourism in an era of global environmental, economic, and political uncertainty. It questions whether technology alone can make tourism truly sustainable or if deeper structural changes are needed.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Planning for Urban Sustainability
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