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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david bissell”
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  • Transit Life

    How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities

    by David Bissell ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we rarely stop to think about the significance of these daily journeys. In Transit Life, David Bissell explores how everyday life in cities is increasingly defined by commuting. Examining the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Negative Geographies

    Exploring the Politics of Limits

    Edited by David Bissell, Mitch Rose, Paul Harrison ...
    Series series Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
    Negative Geographies is the first edited collection to chart the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography. Using a variety of case studies and empirical investigations, these chapters consider how the negative, through annihilations, gaps, ruptures, and tears, can work within or against the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Social Beings, Future Belongings

    Reimagining the Social

    Edited by Anna Tsalapatanis, Miranda Bruce, David Bissell, Helen Keane ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    Social Beings, Future Belongings is a collection of sociological essays that address an increasingly relevant matter: what does belonging look like in the twenty-first century? The book critically explores the concept of belonging and how it can respond to contemporary problems in not only the traditional domains of citizenship and migration, but also in detention practices, queer and feminist ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller ...
    The 21st century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last. With cheap travel, and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030. And yet, all this mobility is happening incredibly unevenly, at different paces and intensities, with varying impacts and consequences to the extent that life on the move might be actually quite difficult to sustain environmentally, socially ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Stillness in a Mobile World

    Edited by David Bissell, Gillian Fuller ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement.With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the diversity of this collection illuminates the multiplicity of ontological and epistemological registers ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Design and Ethics

    Reflections on Practice

    Edited by Emma Felton, Oksana Zelenko, Suzi Vaughan ...
    The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform human experience and understanding, expanding ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Mobile Lives

    by Anthony Elliott, John Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Everyday Practice of Public Art

    Art, Space, and Social Inclusion

    Edited by Cameron Cartiere, Martin Zebracki ...
    The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment.It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and Willis), and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Urban Subversion and the Creative City

    by Oli Mould ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion.The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Air & Light & Time & Space

    How Successful Academics Write

    by Helen Sword ...
    From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pressed for Time

    The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    by Judy Wajcman ...
    "A splendid new book. . . . Takes on—and mostly demolishes—the conventional narrative about the acceleration of life in a digital world." ― ObserverMost of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Media Theory

    Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts

    by Brett Mills, David M. Barlow ...
    What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now?This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have ... Read more

    $89.99 USD