Researching and Representing Mobilities [electronic resource] : Transdisciplinary Encounters /
Murray, L.editor.
Upstone, S.editor.
This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Mobilising Representations: Dialogues, Embodiment and Power; Reconceptualising/mobilising representation; Transdisciplinary dialogues; Globalising embodied experience; Mobilising resistance; Conclusion; 2 Power and Representations of Mobility: From the Nexus Between Emotional and Sensuous Embodiment and Discursive and Ideational Construction; Introduction; Governing mobilities and mobile practices; Governmentality and making sense of movement; Investigating the discursive production of mobility
Reaching across to experiential mobilitiesCorporeal mobilities; Atmospheres - emotional and affective design as inducing and inviting; Making experiential and embodied production of mobilities intelligible; In conclusion: Power and (non)representations of mobility; 3 'Footprints Are the Only Fixed Point': The Mobilities of Postcolonial Fiction; Introduction; Relative movement: Postcolonial critiques of the mobility paradigm; Resistant rhythms: Subverting colonial mobilities; Conclusion; 4 Constructing the Mobile City: Gendered Mobilities in London Fiction; Introduction
Wandering through the ethnographic text'Women moving dangerously'; Mobile dangers; Constructing the city through mobility; Gendered dystopias and fragmented identities; (Contesting) dangerous mobile spaces; Becoming a new (mobile) woman; Conclusion: Creating knowledge through fiction; 5 A Motor-Flight Through Early Twentieth-Century Consciousness: Capturing the Driving-Event 1905-1935; Introduction; Early motor-flights; Kinaesthetics; Motormania; Conclusion; 6 Reading the Mobile City Through Street Art: Belfast'sMurals; Introduction; Street negotiations and mobile practices
Belfast's changing muralscapeRe-imaging the muralscape; Mobilities and mobile cultures; Re-imagining through alternative readings; Conclusion; 7 Drawing the Urban Highway: Mobile Representations in Design and Architecture; Introduction; Distance, scale and immobilising diagrams; Cinematic and serial visions; Drawing on the landscape; Drawing the highway over London; The experience of driving; Conclusions; 8 The Pan Flute Musicians at Sergels Torg: Between Global Flows and Specificities of Place; Introduction; Music and mobility; The case study; Background; The place
Between global flows and specificities of placeMusic as representative of global flows: The tensions between fluidity and fixity; Continuity and presence: Experiencing and making place; Place matters; Conclusion; 9 Travelling the Journey: Understanding Mobility Trajectories by Recreating Research Paths; Introduction; Mobility practices, trajectories and paths; Shadowing mobility practices; Case study: Gloria's story; Drawing the trajectory; Conclusion; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities.
Social sciences.
Human geography.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Culture.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Human Geography.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Sociology of Culture.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.