Aerial Life Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

by Adey, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781405182621
• ISBN10: 1405182628
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era

Author Biography

Peter Adey is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at Keele University, Staffordshire, England. His research interests include the study of mobility and cultures of aviation and security. Adey is the author of Mobility (2009).

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Prologue

Aerial Life

Powering Up Aerial Geographies

The Organization of the Book

Becoming Aerial

Birth of the Aerial Body

Introduction

Beginnings

'Handsome Is as Handsome Does': Disassembling the Aerial Body

The Flesh of the Aerial Youth

Simulation

Conclusion

The Projection and Performance of Airspace

Introduction

Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory

Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power

Conclusion

Governing Aerial Life

Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics

Introduction

Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing

Populations

Techniques of the Observer/Observed

Three-Dimensional Vision

Conclusion

Profiling Machines

Introduction

Imagining the Pilot/Passenger

Sorting

Modifying

Conclusion

Aerial Aggression

Aerial Environments

Introduction

The Emergence of a Target

Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare

Air Conditioning

Conclusion

Subjects under Siege

Warning

Introduction

The Anatomy of Panic

Imaginations and Urgencies

Vigilance and the Social as Circuit

Entrainment

Conclusion

Conclusion

Environments

Futures

Aerial Turns

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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