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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. "Mobilities in Transit" builds upon 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 metaphysics; 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.As such, this volume undertakes not only to describe and explore contemporary and narrow notions of mobility but also to investigate and nurture their transition to richer conceptual models. Spatial, ethical, and technical dimensions of mobility, so far not satisfactorily analyzed, are related for the first time in this collection to established research on mobilities in geography, economics and sociology. 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. "Mobilities in Transit", then, 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.
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THE ETHICS OF MOBILITIES
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The Ethics of Mobilities Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment
Edited by
SIGURD BERGMANN Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway TORE SAGER Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
© Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England
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www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The ethics of mobilities : rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment. - (Transport and society) 1. Migration, Internal 2. Human geography 3. Liberty I. Bergmann, Sigurd II. Sager, Tore 304.8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956The ethics of mobilities : rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment / by Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager. p. cm. -- (Transport and society) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7283-8 1. Migration, Internal. 2. Human geography. 3. Liberty. I. Sager, Tore. II. Title. HB1952.B47 2008 307.2--dc22 2008004795 ISBN 978 0 7546 7283 8
Contents
List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction In Between Standstill and Hypermobility – Introductory Remarks to a Broader Discourse Sigurd Bergmann and Tore Sager
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PART I 1
The Beauty of Speed or the Discovery of Slowness – Why Do We Need to Rethink Mobility? Sigurd Bergmann
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Mobility, Freedom and Public Space Mimi Sheller
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Automobility and the Driving Force of Warfare: From Public Safety to National Security Jeremy Packer