120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored. This groundbreaking... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Questioning fluidity; Insights from empirical research; Re-thinking spatial mobility; Mobile, therefore free?; The use of speed potentials; What inequalities?; The production of context; Conclusion: towards a network solidity?; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Vincent Kaufmann, Department of Sociology, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France. Researcher at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
