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

• 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.
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Culture.; Dance.; Technology.; Performing Arts.; Global/International Culture.; Culture and Technology.

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...

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).