Choreographing the Airport Field Notes from the Transit Spaces of Global Mobility /

This book investigates the global hub airport as an exemplar of cosmopolitan culture and space. A machine made for movement, itself perched at the crossroads of the world's incessant mobility, the airport is both a symbol of and stage for the ways in which we construct and inhabit the world tod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shih Pearson, Justine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue.- 1. Towards a Practical Cosmopolitanism
  • 2. Persistent Place or Thirdspace?
  • 3. Mass Transits, Micro Transitions
  • 4. Performing Self at the Border
  • 5. Bodies Under Duress (the Dystopic Future is Here).