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Summary
Summary
Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings' embodied engagements with their built world and provides diverse perspectives on the ideological and political underpinnings of landscapes of mobility. In order to describe landscapes of mobility as a historically, socially, and politically constructed condition, the book is divided into three sections-objects, contacts, and flows. The first section looks at elements that constitute such landscapes, including mobile bodies, buildings, and practices across multiple geographical scales. As these variable landscapes are reconstituted under particular social, economic, ecological, and political conditions, the second section turns to the particular practices that catalyze embodied relations within and across such spaces. Finally, the last section explores how the flows of objects, bodies, interactions, and ecologies are represented, presenting a critical comparison of the means by which relations, processes, and exchanges are captured, depicted, reproduced and re-embodied.
Author Notes
Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture; Jennifer Johung, Associate Professor of Art History, both at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Table of Contents
Introduction |
Landscapes of mobility: culture, politics and placemakingArijit Sen and Jennifer Johung |
Part I Objects |
Replaceable skins: clothing as mobile homeJennifer Johung |
Container ecologyDoug Hecker |
Zombie housing provisions for the displaced in the aftermath of disasterStephen Verderber |
Guerrilla planning: James Rojas' urban planning initiativesJames Rojas |
Part II Contacts |
Crossing the Milwaukee River: a case study in mapping mobility and class geographiesSarah Fayen Scarlett |
Re-inventing the center: urban memory, political travel and the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, RomaniaAndreea Mihalache |
Mobility and property: Japanese Americans and African Americans coming and going in San Francisco' JapantownLynne Horiuchi |
Roads of joy, pathways of anger: emotional responses to landscapes of mobilityMarcus Filippello |
Part III Flows |
Out of place: postcolonial traces of dynamic urbanismAnoma Pieris |
Map, mother and militant: visualizing India in diasporaArijit Sen |
Infrastructural cartography: drawing the space of flowsClare Lyster |
Index |