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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-101032342455

ISBN-139781032342450

eBay Product ID (ePID)3073779863

Product Key Features

Number of Pages230 Pages

Publication NameMobilities in Remote Places

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectSociology / General, Social History

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorPhillip Vannini

SeriesChanging Mobilities Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2023-005062

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230316

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal307.72

Table Of Content1. Mobilities in remote places: introduction Part 1: Rhythms 2. Making remoteness through pandemic im/mobilities on the Isle of Coll, Scotland 3. Lavorare dal Sud : return to Southern Italy and remote work in pandemic times 4. Cards, memories and places: exploring remoteness and place in rural Denmark Part 2: Routes 5. From trade corridor to dead end? Eastern Afghanistan as a remote borderland 6. Bigsy vs the Mice: tiny airports flying in the face of a compromised fate 7. Mobilities on the margins: the becoming of Melrakkaslétta as a tourist destination Part 3: Speeds 8. When the road came: remoteness, mobility and social change among youth in Kaasa, Ghana 9. Where media technology is not fully available: sound-based means of transport as local media Part 4: Frictions 10. The immobilities of non-automobile residents of rural Spain 11. Moving Patagonia: contemporary rural dwelling through estancias, puestos and puesteros Part 5: Feels 12. Slowness, sense of community, and changing perceptions of mobility in Tajikistan's Bartang Valley 13. Ancient paths, new forms of movement in the Peruvian Andes Part 6: Motives 14. The lure of immobility: living and coworking in rural France 15. Mobilizing and practising remoteness in Iceland's Westfjords 16. The groundhog trail: the geographies of habitat and daily life for mobile workers at the Romaine River hydroelectric site

SynopsisMobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities., Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities. As mobilities around the world proliferate in countless forms, the meanings of remoteness undergo significant change. Places once considered impossibly distant have appeared to become closer, more accessible, and less distinct from global centers of geopolitical power. But instead of disappearing altogether, configurations of remoteness evolve, manifesting themselves through new possibilities, new challenges, and new insecurities. Drawing from a variety of case studies from around the globe, the contributors of the book examine remoteness as an outcome of evolving mobility constellations. Rather than defining remoteness as an absolute or objective time-distance condition, the book shows how remoteness is a practice, experience, and representation that is situated, relational, and emergent. This collection of original and thought-provoking chapters will be of interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in mobilities, place, and human geography.

LC Classification NumberHT421.M6193 2024