Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box
General Information
- Author/Creator
- Morley, David, 1949-, author.
- Language
- English.
- Published
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2017.
- Physical Description
- x, 245 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
- Subject
- Communication > Technological innovations > History.
- Mass media > Technological innovations > History.
- Telecommunications > Technological innovations.
- Mobile communication systems.
- Communication, International > History.
Bibliographic Information
- Responsibility
- David Morley.
- Content
- Part I. The return of geopolitics. 1. Communications, transport, and territory -- 2. Constituting Europe: empires, nations, and techno-zones -- Part II. Reconceptualizing communications: mobilities and geographies. 3. Sedentarism, nomadology, and "new mobilities" -- 4. Disaggregating mobilities: zoning, exclusion, and containment -- 5. Geography, topography, and topology: networks and infrastructures -- 6. The virtual and the actual: being there, disembodiment, and deterritorialization -- Part III. The mobility of people, information, and commodities: Case studies in communication geography. 7. Migration: changing paradigms, embodied mobilities, and material practices -- 8. Mobile communications and ubiquitous connectivity: technologies of transformation? -- 9. Containerization as globalization: the mobility of commodities.
- ISBN
- 9781405192019
- 9781405192002
Holdings
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Book | OSA Archivum Library | Reference collection | 302.23 MOR | | Reference | - |
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