Description
Book SynopsisIt is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.
Trade Review"This is a book to savor slowly. Presented as a multimedia experimental ethnography embedded with sound recordings, maps, photos, and website, Ferry Tales will transform how we share scholarship as well as how we think about mobility and moorings."—Mimi Sheller, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University
"This deliciously written (and titled) text is a mobile ethnography of performance, action and ritual as played out on and around the islands and coasts on Canada’s west coast. Ferry Tales will transport readers to fresh and humane reconstitutions of space, place, time, and technology."—Godfrey Baldacchino, Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
"...in his direct and affectionate observations of how we live and move on this coast, he captures us as individuals and as a culture."—Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
"Reading Ferry Tales and experiencing the complementary material on the book’s website is a thoroughly enjoyable process. It is an imaginative and innovative work that is to be relished, not rushed." – Social & Cultural Geography
Table of ContentsPart 1: Before Departure 1. A Queen’s Drowning 2. Ways of Moving 3. Getting to the BC Coast 4. The Making of Ferry Tales Part 2: Welcome Aboard 5. Travel as Performance 6. Of Ferries and Their Passengers 7. Ferry Technoculture 8. In the Kids’ Zone Part 3: A Different Kind of Place 9. Insulation and Isolation 10. The Feel of Island and Coastal Life 11. En Route to Heaven? 12. Removed Part 4: In Time, Out of Time 13. Island Time 14. Speed…Sort of… 15. Keeping the Rhythm 16. Are we there yet? Part 5: Ferries, Power, and Politics 17. Constellations of (In-)Convenience 18. Danger: Keep Off the Rocks 19. More Cracks in the Water 20. Changing Life on the Coast Part 6: Performing Elusive Mobilities 21. The Taskscape of Travel 22. How to Catch a Ferry 23. Ritual, Play, and Drama 24. Elusiveness Part 7: Waiting for a Ride 25. Time Thieves 26. Dwelling in Lineups 27. Mind the Gap 28. Another Sailing Wait
