Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Adey, Peter

ISBN 10: 140518261X / ISBN 13: 9781405182614

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects (RGS-IBG Book Series)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140518261X
• ISBN 13: 9781405182614
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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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
  

About the Author

Peter Adey is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at Keele University, Staffordshire, England. His research interests include the study of mobility and cultures of aviation and security. Adey is the author of Mobility (2009).