1. Introduction: The Movement of the Few by Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrío 2. Elsewhere: Tracking the Mobile Lives of Globals by Anthony Elliott 3. Wealth Segmentation and the Mobilities of the Super-Rich: A Conceptual Framework by Jonathan V. Beaverstock and James R. Faulconbridge 4. Elite Formation in the Third Industrial Revolution by Thomas Birtchnell, Gil Viry and John Urry 5. Aeromobile Elites: Private Business Aviation and the Global Economy by Lucy Budd 6. Super-Rich Lifestyles by Mike Featherstone 7. The Ease of Mobility by Shamus Rahman Khan 8. The Uneven Pragmatics of ‘Affordable’ Luxury Tourism in Inland Yucatán (México) by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Ana García Silberman and Juan Córdoba Ordóñez 9. Visible-Invisible: The Social Semiotics of Labour in Luxury Tourism by Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski 10. ‘This is Not Me’: Conspicuous Consumption and the Travel Aspirations of the European Middle Classes by Javier Caletrío 11. Tracing the Super Rich and their Mobilities in a Scandinavian Welfare State by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen 12. The Super-Rich and Offshore Worlds by John Urry 13. Epilogue: The Bodies, Spaces and Tempo of Elite Formations by Mimi Sheller 14. Postscript: Elite Mobilities and Critique by Andrew Sayer
Biography
Thomas Birtchnell is Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Javier Caletrío is Research Fellow at the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, UK.
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