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Aerial life : spaces, mobilities, affects / Peter Adey.
Author
Adey, Peter
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Description
xii, 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
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Engineering Library - Stacks
TL553 .A34 2010
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Subject(s)
Aeronautics
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Social aspects
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Air travel
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Social aspects
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Human geography
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Social mobility
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Series
RGS-IBG book series
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Summary note
This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. It brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction
Prologue
Aerial Life
Powering Up Aerial Geographies
The Organization of the Book
Part I. Becoming Aerial
2. Birth of the Aerial Body
Introduction
Beginnings
The Flesh of the Aerial Youth
Simulation
Conclusion
3. The Projection and Performance of Airspace
Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory
Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power
Part II. Governing Aerial Life
4. Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing
Populations
Techniques of the Observer /Observed
Three-Dimensional Vision
5. Profiling Machines
Imagining the Pilot /Passenger
Sorting
Modifying
Part III. Aerial Aggression
6. Aerial Environments
The Emergence of a Target
Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare
Air Conditioning
7. Subjects under Siege
Warning
The Anatomy of Panic
Imaginations and Urgencies
Vigilance and the Social as Circuit
Entrainment
8. Conclusion
Environments
Futures
Aerial Turns.
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ISBN
9781405182621 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
9781405182614 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1405182628 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
140518261X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2009052085
OCLC
496726467
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