Researching and Representing Mobilities
Subtitle: Transdisciplinary Encounters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 29, 2014
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781137346650
Description: "In an arguably increasingly mobile world, mobilities are represented in society in many ways. There is a growing awareness that these representations not only help us understand the complexities of social relations in space but also produce society and space. There is also an increased interest in the adoption of research methodologies that are distinctly mobile. Simultaneously, the contested nature of representation is reflected in current discussions around the capacity for the practices of the mobile and sensuous body to be represented, as some movements are considered non-representable.This book engages with these debates, and, by exploring representations of mobilities in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and in research, it examines the methodological potential of representations and the ways in which they co-produce mobilities"--
Notes: Source title: Researching and Representing Mobilities: Transdisciplinary Encounters