Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks, Volume 4 : Mapping Time Transport Journeys

• Autore: Brunn Stanley D
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Introduction to an Emerging World of Time Journeys: No End to Studying or Mapping Them -- Contents -- Contributors -- West Africa´s Ebola Time Journey, Xenophobia and the Power of Community-Based Systems in Senegal -- Introduction -- The Time Geography of Ebola in West Africa -- West African Responses and Resilience to EVD -- Field Context: Geography of Health and Ebola in Senegal -- The Geography of Xenophobia During Senegal´s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 -- Conclusion -- References -- Along the Trans-Siberian Pipeline: A Social Geography by Camera -- Introduction -- Lifestyle Contrasts -- Moving Forward -- Recommended Readings -- References -- Shifting U.S. and North Carolina Demography During COVID-19 -- Introduction and Purpose -- Critical Background and Context -- Two Colorful Processes -- North Carolina Patterns -- Winners and Losers -- Gale Force Demographic Wind Gusts -- Population Trends During COVID -- Continued Slowing Growth -- Geo-Demographic Drivers of Change -- Migration Driven Change -- The Tarheel Magnet -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- A Nation for a Continent vs Rail Networks for Its States: The Staggered Creation of Australia´s Transcontinental Transport Lin... -- Introduction -- A Fragmented Australia: Before the Trans Australian Railway -- A Connected Australia: The Coming of the Trans Australian Railway -- A Networked Australia: Since the Trans Australian Railway -- Conclusion -- References -- Walking Time-Space: A Photographic Journey Along the Thames River in London -- Introduction -- Downriver Thames -- Upriver Thames -- The Journey Continues -- References -- Beyond the Cultural Bubble: ``Wow´´ Journeys to Iconic Destinations -- Takeoff -- Journeys to Iconic Destinations -- Machu Picchu, Perú -- Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile -- Bora Bora, French Polynesia -- Angkor Wat, Cambodia. ; Huli Wigmen, Tari Highlands, Papua New Guinea -- Borobudur, Indonesia -- Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda -- Nabatean Petra, Jordan -- Ephesus, Turkey -- Ilulissat, Disko Bay, Greenland -- Touchdown -- References -- Challenges in the Walking Journeys of an African Pedestrian: A Case Study from Makhanda, South Africa -- Introduction -- Study Area: Makanaskop, Makhanda -- Methods -- Results -- Walkability Observations -- Resident´s Walking Practices -- Discussion -- References -- The Journey to the Interoceanic Highway in Peru: The Perils in Histories of Infrastructure -- Introduction -- Origins and Exploration -- The Rubber Boom -- The Future Highway -- Development and Madre de Dios -- Foundations of an Interoceanic Highway -- IIRSA and the Interoceanic Highway -- The Arrival of the Interoceanic Highway -- Lava Jato and the Interoceanic Highway -- Conclusion -- References -- Gas Station Road Maps: Passports to Imagination and Adventure -- Introduction-How I Fell in Love with Gas Station Road Maps -- The Evolution of Gas Station Road Maps in the United States -- Two Examples of Early Auto Road Maps -- Putting It All Together-Road Atlases -- Road Maps and the Evolution of Travel Modes -- Roads and Road Maps as Reflections of Society -- The Road as a Symbol in Literature and Film -- Dinosaurs, Blackface and Liberated Women -- The Unique Case of the Sinclair Dinosaur -- An Image That Has Been Forgotten -- Liberated Women -- Father Knows Best Comes to Road Maps -- The End of Adventure -- Road Maps and the Lure of Travel -- Scenic Road Map Covers -- On-Map Travel Guides and Marginalia -- Oil Company Travel Services -- Change and Persistence as Revealed by Road Maps -- Change -- Persistence -- Zooming In and Out on Gas Station Road Maps -- Zooming with Paper Maps-The Case of San Francisco -- The Death (and Rebirth?) of Paper Maps. ; Road Maps as Resources for Scholarship, Teaching and Enjoyment -- Where Can I Get Old Gas Station Maps? -- Using Old Road Maps for Research and Teaching -- References -- Back to a Redeemed Future: Rural Communities and Apocalypse in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru -- Introduction -- Time, Geographies of Power and Religion -- Pandemic Time Journeys -- Progress and the Countryside -- The Contingency of Timescapes of Progress -- Problems with Progress -- Conceptualising the City and the Countryside -- Urban-Rural Temporalities in the Northern Peruvian Andes -- Money, Metabolism and Time -- Inventing Rural Backwardness -- Alternative Valuations of Rurality -- Migration, Meaning and Time -- Urbanisation in Peru -- The Exodus and Its Meaning -- Time Journeys -- Layer 1: Progress Challenged -- Layer 2: Agrarian Timescapes as Liberation -- Layer 3: Apocalypse -- Conclusion -- References -- Time Journeys on the Remote Amazonian Frontier: The Javari Basin (Brazil and Peru) -- Introduction -- Why Natxi Cries -- Why Clovis Travels the Rivers -- What Am I Doing Here? -- Why Elders Go Downriver -- Parallel Narratives -- Arrows of Time on Rivers of History -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks, Volume 4
• ISBN: 3-031-58037-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910864181903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II