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. |
Contents
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Mobility and Meaning in the Photography of Eadweard Muybridge and EtienneJules Marey | 57 |
Chapter 4 The Production of Mobility in the Workplace and the Home | 85 |
Producing Mobility on the Dance Floor | 123 |
Chapter 6 Mobility Rights and Citizenship in the United States | 147 |
Chapter 7 Producing Immigrant Mobilities | 175 |
Entangled Mobilities in the Suffrage Politics of Florence Luscomb and Margaret Foley 19111915 | 195 |
Chapter 9 The Production of Mobilities at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam | 219 |
Epilogue | 259 |
Notes | 267 |
Bibliography | 303 |
Index | 321 |
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