I write to announce a recent book Communication and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone and the Container Box, which argues for an interdisciplinary perspective on communications, covering a variety of mobilities - of information, of people and of commodities. The book illustrates this perspective by focussing, as its title implies, on three key icons of our era - the migrant, the mobile phone and the container box. Drawing together the North American and European materialist approaches to culture and communications, the book embraces perspectives from sociology, transport geography, media anthropology and cultural geography.
Contents
Part One : The Return of Geopolitics
1 Communications, Transport and Territory
2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations and Techno-Zones
Part Two : Reconceptualising Communications
3 Sedentarism, Nomadology and the New Mobilities
4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion and Containment
5 Geography, Topography and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures
6 The Virtual and the Actual: Disembodiment and De-territorialisation
Part Three: Case Studies in Communications Geography
7 Migration: Embodied Mobilities and Material Practices
8. Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity
9 Containerisation as Globalisation: The Mobility of Commodities
The book is published by Wiley-Blackwell.ISBN 978-1-405-19200-2.
Further details are available via this link: https://www.wiley.com/en-bz/Communications+and+Mobility:+The+Migrant,+the+Mobile+Phone,+and+the+Container+Box-p-9781405192019