1st Edition

Stillness in a Mobile World

Edited By David Bissell, Gillian Fuller Copyright 2011
272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Stillness Unbound by David Bissell and Gillian Fuller  Part I: Technics  2. Shadow's Forces/Forces' Shadows by Andrew Murphie  3. Airportals: The Functional Significance of Stillness in the Junkspace of Airports by Ross Harley  4. Still Waiting, Still Moving: On Labour, Logistics and Maritime Industries by Brett Nielson and Ned Rossiter  Part II: Communities  5. The Orchestration of Feeling: Stillness, Spirituality and Places of Retreat by David Conradson  6. Performing Stillness: Community in Waiting by Emma Cocker  7. The Productivity of Stillness: Composure and the Scholarly Habitus by Megan Watkins and Greg Noble  Part III: Materialities  8. The Private Life of an Air Raid: Mobility, Stillness, Affect by Peter Adey  9. Moving Encounters: The Affective Mobilities of Photography by Debbie Lisle  10. Stillness Re-animated: Experiencing Body Worlds and the Work of Art by Sebastian Abrahamsson  Part IV: Suspensions  11. The Singularity of the 'Still': 'Never Suspend the Question' by J-D Dewsbury  12. Turbulent Stillness: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Undocumented Migrant by Craig Martin  13. The Broken Thread: On Being Still by Paul Harrison

Biography

David Bissell is Lecturer in Sociology at The Australian National University. His research investigates relations between mobilities, bodies and technologies and has been published in a range of international journals, including Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Cultural Geographies.

Gillian Fuller is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Technology at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW, Australia. She is the author of numerous papers and chapters on issues around bodies, politics and architectures of mobility. She is co-author of Aviopolis: A Book about Airports (Blackdog Publications, 2004), and is currently completing a book on what movement does to meaning titled Transit Semiotics.