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Discover recently published works on mobility. To inform us of a new publication in French, please contact Thomas Evariste. For publications in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, please contact Javier Caletrío.

Understanding Personal Mobilities

Aharon Kellerman

United Kingdom

10/2023

In this thought-provoking book, Aharon Kellerman presents a wide-ranging understanding of personal mobilities; the mobilities which individuals initiate, direct, and operate physically and virtually and which constitute an expression of personal auto [...]

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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

Harvard University Press

United States

10/2023

Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. [...]

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Discourse Analysis in Transport and Urban Development Interpretation, Diversity and Controversy

Edited by Robin Hickman and Christine Hannigan

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/discourse-analysis-in-transport-and-urban-development-9781802207194.html

United Kingdom

09/2023

Drawing on discourse analysis, this innovative book takes a novel approach to examining the different interpretations, diversity of views and controversy in society about transport and urban development. Combining theory with empirical case studie [...]

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Spirit Deep Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel

Tisha M. Brooks

University of Virginia Press

United States

09/2023

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? [...]

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Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

Tanja Ahlin

Rutgers University Press

08/2023

How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? [...]

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If Cars Could Walk Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Edited by Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene

Bergham

United Kingdom

07/2023

In the last 25 years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in post-socialist cities. [...]

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Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities

Edited by Annelies Zoomers, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Guus Van Westen

Edward Elgar Publishing

07/2023

This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. [...]

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The Great American Transit Disaster A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

University of Chicago Press

United States

06/2023

Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. [...]

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Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

David Schley

University of Chicago Press

United States

06/2023

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. [...]

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Traffication. How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It

Paul Donald

Pelagic Publishing

United Kingdom

05/2023

Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. [...]

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