On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western WorldOn the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. Typically, people have equated increasing mobility with increasing freedom. However, as Cresswell shows, while mobility has certainly increased in modern times, attempts to control and restrict mobility are just as characteristic of modernity. Through a series of fascinating historical episodes Cresswell shows how mobility and its regulation have been central to the experience of modernity. |
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... important connections are not made . Writing on mobility remains either very specific ( about commuter patterns , migrations , or dance for instance ) or madden- ingly abstract — the kind of work that talks of points A and B ...
... important connections are not made . Writing on mobility remains either very specific ( about commuter patterns , migrations , or dance for instance ) or madden- ingly abstract — the kind of work that talks of points A and B ...
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... important marginalized groups in modern society . This sense of anxiety about mobility in modernity is far more extensive than these state reactions to the perpetually peripatetic . There is a more pervasive sense in which mobility has ...
... important marginalized groups in modern society . This sense of anxiety about mobility in modernity is far more extensive than these state reactions to the perpetually peripatetic . There is a more pervasive sense in which mobility has ...
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... important part of a transformation in the geography of expectations that surrounded men and women . Feminist research has recently provided a cautionary note to the emergence of a nomadic metaphysics . Rather than submitting to a ...
... important part of a transformation in the geography of expectations that surrounded men and women . Feminist research has recently provided a cautionary note to the emergence of a nomadic metaphysics . Rather than submitting to a ...
Contents
An Interpretive Framework | 1 |
The Metaphysics of Fixity and Flow | 25 |
Mobility and Meaning in the Photography of Eadweard Muybridge and EtienneJules Marey | 57 |
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