Aerial life : spaces, mobilities, affects / Peter Adey.

Author
Adey, Peter [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Description
xii, 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

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    RGS-IBG book series [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. It brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction
    • Prologue
    • Aerial Life
    • Powering Up Aerial Geographies
    • The Organization of the Book
    • Part I. Becoming Aerial
    • 2. Birth of the Aerial Body
    • Introduction
    • Beginnings
    • The Flesh of the Aerial Youth
    • Simulation
    • Conclusion
    • 3. The Projection and Performance of Airspace
    • Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory
    • Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power
    • Part II. Governing Aerial Life
    • 4. Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics
    • Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing
    • Populations
    • Techniques of the Observer /Observed
    • Three-Dimensional Vision
    • 5. Profiling Machines
    • Imagining the Pilot /Passenger
    • Sorting
    • Modifying
    • Part III. Aerial Aggression
    • 6. Aerial Environments
    • The Emergence of a Target
    • Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare
    • Air Conditioning
    • 7. Subjects under Siege
    • Warning
    • The Anatomy of Panic
    • Imaginations and Urgencies
    • Vigilance and the Social as Circuit
    • Entrainment
    • 8. Conclusion
    • Environments
    • Futures
    • Aerial Turns.
    ISBN
    • 9781405182621 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781405182614 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1405182628 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
    • 140518261X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009052085
    OCLC
    496726467
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