Mobile lives : self, excess and nature / / Anthony Elliott and John Urry

• Autore: Elliott Anthony
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/32
• Soggetto topico: Transportation - Social aspects; Civilization, Modern; Information technology - Social aspects; Sociology - Philosophy; Social sciences - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: UrryJohn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Mobile lives: A step too far?; 2 New technologies, new mobilities; 3 Networks and inequalities; 4 The globals and their mobilities; 5 Mobile relationships: Intimacy at-a-distance; 6 Consuming to excess; 7 Contested futures; Afterword; References and notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative study of ""life on the move"", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of 'globals', and intimate relati
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobile lives
• ISBN: 1-134-01922-X; 1-282-64012-7; 9786612640124; 0-203-88704-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458951903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International Library of Sociology