Book announcement : David Morley - Communications and Mobility

Book announcement : David Morley - Communications and Mobility


Dear Colleagues


I write to announce a recent book of mine Communication and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone and the Container Box, which argues for an interdisciplinary perspective on communications, covering a variety of mobilities - of information, of people and of commodities. The book illustrates this perspective by focussing, as its title indicates, on three key icons of our era - the migrant, the mobile phone and the container box. Drawing together both North American and European materialist approaches to culture and communications, the book embraces perspectives from sociology, transport geography, media anthropology and cultural goegraphy.


Contents


Part One : The Return of Geopolitics

1 Communications, Transport and Territory

2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations and Techno-zones


Part Two : Reconceptualising Communications

3 Sedentarism, Nomadology and the New Mobilities

4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion and Containment

5 Geography, Topography and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures

6 The Virtual and the Actual: Disembodiment and De-territorialisation


Part Three: Case Studies in Communications Geography

7 Migration: Embodied Mobilities and Material Practices

8. Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity

9 Containerisation as Globalisation: The Mobility of Commodities


The book is published by Wiley-Blackwell.ISBN 978-1-405-19200-2.

Further details are available via this link: https://www.wiley.com/en-bz/Communications+and+Mobility:+The+Migrant,+the+Mobile+Phone,+and+the+Container+Box-p-9781405192019

David Morley, Dept of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College



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