Stillness in a mobile world
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Stillness in a mobile world
(International library of sociology)
Routledge, 2011
- : hbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement.
With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the diversity of this collection illuminates the multiplicity of ontological and epistemological registers through which stillness moves: from human geography to media studies, cultural theory to fine arts. With the help of luminaries such as Deleuze, Bergson, Barthes and Beckett, this book interweaves cutting-edge theoretical insight with empirical illustrations which examine and traverse a multitude of practices, spaces and events. In an era where stasis, slowness and passivity are often held to be detrimental, this collection puts forward a new set of political and ethical concerns which help us to come to terms with, understand, and account for (im)mobile life.
Stillness in a Mobile World in an essential source of reference for both undergraduate and post-graduate students working within disciplines such as cultural studies, sociology, mobility studies, and human geography.
Table of Contents
1. Stillness Unbound Part 1: Technics 2. Shadow's Forces/Forces' Shadows 3. Airportals: The Functional Significance of Stillness in the Junkspace of Airports 4. Still Waiting, Still Moving: On Labour, Logistics and Maritime Industries Part 2: Communities 5. The Orchestration of Feeling: Stillness, Spirituality and Places of Retreat 6. Performing Stillness: Community in Waiting 7. The Productivity of Stillness: Composure and the Scholarly Habitus Part 3: Materialities 8. The Private Life of an Air Raid: Mobility, Stillness, Affect 9. Moving Encounters: The Affective Mobilities of Photography 10. Stillness Re-animated: Experiencing and the Work of Art Part 4: Suspensions 11. The Singularity of the 'Still': 'Never Suspend the Question' 12. Turbulent Stillness: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Undocumented Migrant 13. The Broken Thread: On Being Still
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