The ethics of mobilities : rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment / edited by Sigurd Bergmann, Tore Sager.

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9780754688150
0754688151

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics of mobilities.DDC classification:

307.2 22

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HB1952 .E84 2008eb

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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