The Ethics of Mobilities: Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment (Transport and Society) - Hardcover

Sager, Tore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754672832 ISBN 13: 9780754672838

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of technology for the surveillance and control of mobility as well as for transport. It widens this theme to encompass a broad scale of issues, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and religion; questions that are dealt with by a diverse, yet structured range of chapters, arranged around the themes of ethics and religion, and freedom and control. Through their variety and diversity of perspectives, the chapters of this book offer a substantial interdisciplinary contribution to the socially and environmentally relevant discussion about what a technically and economically accelerating mobility does to life and how it might be transformed to sustain a more life-enhancing future. Ethics of Mobilities will excite not only international interest, but will also appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, in fields as diverse as theology and engineering.

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About the Author

Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Tore Sager is Professor in the Department of Civil and Transport Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754672832
• ISBN 13: 9780754672838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Bergmann Sigurd