TY - BOOK AU - Bergmann,Sigurd AU - Sager,Tore TI - The ethics of mobilities: rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment T2 - Transport and society SN - 9780754688150 AV - HB1952 .E84 2008eb U1 - 307.2 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Human geography KW - Liberty KW - Migration, Internal KW - Freedom KW - Population Dynamics KW - Liberté KW - Migration intérieure KW - freedom KW - aat KW - internal migration KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Computer network resources KW - gtlm N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=270888 ER -