{"product_id":"mobile-lives-9780415480222","title":"Mobile Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative study of \"life on the move\", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of 'globals', and intimate relationships at-a-distance. Elliott and Urry introduce a range of new concepts - \u003cem\u003eminiaturized mobilities, affect storage, network capital, meetingness, neighbourhood lives, portable personhood, ambient place, globals\u003c\/em\u003e - to capture the specific ways in which mobility systems intersect with mobile lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book represents a novel approach in \"post-carbon\" social theory. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduates and teachers in sociology, social theory, politics, geography, international relations, cultural studies, and economics and business studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Elliott,John Urry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415480222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Elliott is Chair of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia, and Visiting Research Professor at the Open University, UK. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eContemporary Social Theory: An Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe New Individualism\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e2nd Edition \u003c\/em\u003e(with Charles Lemert, 2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Social Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (editor, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eGlobalization: A Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (co-editor, 2010) - all published by Routledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Urry\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eMobile Technologies of the City\u003c\/em\u003e (co-editor, Routledge, 2006), \u003cem\u003eMobilities\u003c\/em\u003e (Polity, 2007), \u003cem\u003eAeromobilities\u003c\/em\u003e (co-editor, 2009), \u003cem\u003eAfter the Car\u003c\/em\u003e (co-author, Polity, 2009) and \u003cem\u003eMobile Methods\u003c\/em\u003e (co-editor, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44279217717363,"sku":"9.78042E+12","price":106.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fbeb5469-3a1b-42bc-bb6f-31c4afa5cc5e.jpg?v=1770470655","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/mobile-lives-9780415480222","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}