The cultures of alternative mobilities : routes less travelled / edited by Phillip Vannini.
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: mobilities as culture / Ole B. Jensen
- The cultures of alternative mobilities / Phillip Vannini
- Part 1. Performing Space and Time:
- Paddle and portage: the travail of BWCA canoe travel / Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul
- Walking and sitting in Australian Antarctic Territory: mobility and imperial space / Christy Collis
- Moving with others: the sociality of the railway journey / David Bissell
- The view from the air: the cultural geographies of flight / Lucy Budd
- The making of mundane bus journeys / Juliet Jain
- Part 2. Mobile Biographies, Identities and Lifestyles:
- Dear Diary: auto /biography, respect, and mobility / Gayle Letherby and Jon Shaw
- Immobile mobility in daily travelling experiences in Santiago de Chile / Paola Jirón
- Mobility in later life: time, choice, and action / Lena Levin
- Solitude at sea or social sailing? The constitution and perception of the cruising community / Martina Kleinert
- Mobility as strategy, mobility as tactic: post-industrialism and bike messengers / Jeffrey L. Kidder
- Part 3. The Materialities of Mobility:
- Wet and boisterous: the lumpy “romance” of commuting by boat / Roger Boshier
- Cancelled, aborted, late, mechanical: the vagaries of air travel in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada / Lisa-Jo van den Scott
- Mobility, ritual, and performance: an ethnography of parents', children's and youths' ferry boat travel / Phillip Vannini and April Vannini with Jacob Manson and Autumn Vannini
- Coming of age in a time of motorcycles / Richard G. Mitchell Jr and Adele Kubein
- Winslow - a city in motion / Janna Jones and Mark Neumann.