The Ethics of Mobilities : Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment.
Title:
The Ethics of Mobilities : Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment.
Author:
Sager, Tore.
ISBN:
9780754688150
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Series:
Transport and Society
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 -- 6 Mobility as Stress Regulation: A Challenge to Dialogue in Planning? -- 7 Understanding Mobility Holistically: The Case of Hurricane Katrina -- PART II -- 8 Existential Homelessness - Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility -- 9 From Sacred Place to an Existential Dimension of Mobility -- 10 The Phenomenon of Mobility at the Frankfurt International Airport - Challenges from a Theological Perspective -- 11 Religion, Mobility and Conflict -- 12 The Desire for Speed and the Rhythm of the Earth -- 13 The Ontology of Mobility, Morality and Transport Planning -- 14 Walk the Talk - Mobility, Climate Justice and the Churches -- 15 Ecological Approaches to Mobile Machines and Environmental Ethics -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.
Abstract:
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 departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of technology for the surveillance and control of mobility as well as for transport. It widens this theme to encompass a broad scale of issues, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and religion; questions that are dealt with by a diverse, yet structured range of chapters, arranged around the themes of ethics and religion, and freedom and control. Through their variety and diversity of perspectives, the chapters of this book offer a substantial interdisciplinary contribution to the socially and environmentally relevant discussion about what a technically and economically accelerating mobility does to life and how it might be transformed to sustain a more life-enhancing future. Ethics of Mobilities will excite not only international interest, but will also appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, in fields as diverse as theology and engineering.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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