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  • Pandemic (Im)mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield ...
    In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or COVID-19 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Evacuation

    The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency

    by Peter Adey ...
    In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz

    Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities

    by Prof. Peter Adey, Dr. David J. Cox, Prof. Barry Godfrey ...
    Series series History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
    Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz. Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it investigates how the authorities and citizens anticipated the aerial war, and how the State and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Moving Towards Transition

    Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future

    by Prof. Peter Adey, Tim Cresswell, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Anna Nikolaeva, André Nóvoa, Cristina Temenos ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Displacement

    Edited by Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second, it questions ‘who counts’ by including ‘displaced’ people who are less ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Air

    Nature and Culture

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series Earth
    Air has always been essential to life, from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the forests and gigantic insects of the Carboniferous age some 300 million years ago to the air that fuels the most important technologies today. We are immersed in a great ocean of air; from internal combustion and jet engines to modern cities with artificial climates, air is remarkable because it is so ... Read more

    $20.49 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

    $87.99 USD

  • Mobility

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field, and explores the utility of mobility to illuminate a cornucopia of mobile lives: from the mass movements of individuals within global processes such ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Aerial Life

    Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011!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 societyPresents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Writings

    Book 1

    by Unknown ...
    Narrated by Peter Adey, Simone Feiler ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Writings

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    All such Wisdom as this may be viewed as having multiple purposes. All of which are to trigger a shift in personal and global Consciousness.There are so many choices available to you as to how you approach The Writings as a personal relationship.As with all love affairs there has to be an initial introduction in which you want to gain an appreciation for the nature of who and what it is youare ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series
    This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. ... Read more

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  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edited by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... Read more

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