The ethics of mobilities : rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment

Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956- (Added Author). Sager, Tore. (Added Author).

Summary: With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities builds upon the recent interest in social surveillance, widening the theme to encompass a broad scale of questions, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and metaphysics.

Record details

OCLC: ocn567983740
ISBN: 9780754672838
ISBN: 0754672832
ISBN: 0754688151
ISBN: 9780754688150
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 275 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: In Between Standstill and Hypermobility -- Introductory Remarks to a Broader Discourse; PART I; 1 The Beauty of Speed or the Discovery of Slowness -- Why Do We Need to Rethink Mobility?; 2 Mobility, Freedom and Public Space; 3 Automobility and the Driving Force of Warfare: From Public Safety to National Security; 4 Stranded Mobilities, Human Disasters: The Interaction of Mobility and Social Exclusion in Crisis Circumstances; 5 Gendered Mobility: A Case Study of Non-Western Immigrant Women in Norway.