Description
Book SynopsisCommunications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box.
- Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities
- Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography
- Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion
- Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization
Trade Review“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020
The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Redefining Communications 1
Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19
1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21
2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37
Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57
3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59
4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77
5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95
6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113
Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131
7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133
8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159
9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199
Index 233
