Mobilities
On a plane from Adelaide to Perth in Australia. The sociologist John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and focus on physical and virtual movement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urry_(sociologist) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/cemore/
Andrew Marr's BBC programme 'Britain from the Air' is a realisation, using movement measurement of road, rail and air traffic plus energy and communication networks in which locations come second to movement between them.
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainmen...
The thinker I find most interesting on this theme alongside Urry, is John Adams, especially on the subject of hypermobility:
www.olis.oecd.org/olis/1999doc.nsf/63c71d2d4054d0fdc12568...
john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/00071363.PDF#pag...
[Note the acronyms: EST (Environmentally Sustainable Transport) and BAU (Business-As-Usual) ]
My blog is more about transhumance (humus - earth, ground) than nomadism - travelling 'to and fro' between places that are still communities where educated energy is being put into creating a sense of locality.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2009/05/she-finished-half-ro...
I, with my flying, occupy no moral high ground, when I argue for slower travel and the recovery of access by proximity rather than mobility and for escape from the effects of autodependency, especially the way our journeys blight our destinations. Perhaps we shall come to use virtual travel in cyberspace as a substitute for increasing our speed, while giving greater attention to cycling and walking as ways of recovering place.
Mobilities
On a plane from Adelaide to Perth in Australia. The sociologist John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and focus on physical and virtual movement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urry_(sociologist) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/cemore/
Andrew Marr's BBC programme 'Britain from the Air' is a realisation, using movement measurement of road, rail and air traffic plus energy and communication networks in which locations come second to movement between them.
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainmen...
The thinker I find most interesting on this theme alongside Urry, is John Adams, especially on the subject of hypermobility:
www.olis.oecd.org/olis/1999doc.nsf/63c71d2d4054d0fdc12568...
john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/00071363.PDF#pag...
[Note the acronyms: EST (Environmentally Sustainable Transport) and BAU (Business-As-Usual) ]
My blog is more about transhumance (humus - earth, ground) than nomadism - travelling 'to and fro' between places that are still communities where educated energy is being put into creating a sense of locality.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2009/05/she-finished-half-ro...
I, with my flying, occupy no moral high ground, when I argue for slower travel and the recovery of access by proximity rather than mobility and for escape from the effects of autodependency, especially the way our journeys blight our destinations. Perhaps we shall come to use virtual travel in cyberspace as a substitute for increasing our speed, while giving greater attention to cycling and walking as ways of recovering place.