Aerial Life

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NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOKPRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what thedevelopment and transformation of air travel has meant forsocieties and individuals. * Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approachestowards the aeroplane and its relation to society * Presents an original theory that our societies are aerialsocieties, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled andthreatened by aerial mobility * Features a series of detailed international case studies whichmap the history of aviation over the past century - from thepromises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and tothe rise of international terrorism today * Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport toshape societies, bodies and individual identities * Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas abouthow the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are consideredin the modern era

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Peter Adey

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Anthropogeographie Geographie Geography GIS, Fernerkundung u. Kartographie GIS, Remote Sensing & Cartography Human Geography Öffentliche Ordnung u. Verwaltung Political Science Politikwissenschaft Public Policy & Administration

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"These books could serve as a starting point from which tofurther develop this concept of aerial space and how it fits withor challenges other theories of space that are emerging ingeography and the social sciences more broadly, such as thosedrawing on network and complexity theory." (The AAGReview of Books, 1 March 2014)''Peter Adey is a clear, strong, inventive, unique voice in humangeography. In Aerial Life, he brings together a fascinating set oftheoretical concerns and empirical cases in his inimitable style,with a gravity of purpose and a lightness of touch that makes foran incredibly rich book.' --Mark B. Salter, University of Ottawa 'By extending critical human geography to the complexverticalities of airspace, Peter Adey offers a vitally importantriposte to the long neglect of aerial cultural politics in thesocial sciences. Aerial Life is a brilliant tour de force.Incisive, comprehensive, fresh and, above all, topical - this isthe book which can guide us as we address the geographies of theaerial.' --Stephen Graham, Newcastle University "He presents a compelling study of the processes involved in thesocial and psychological shaping of what he calls "the aerialsubject." (Times Literary Supplement, 15 October 2010)
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