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About Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects
NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOKPRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what thedevelopment and transformation of air travel has meant forsocieties and individuals.Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approachestowards the aeroplane and its relation to societyPresents an original theory that our societies are aerialsocieties, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled andthreatened by aerial mobilityFeatures a series of detailed international case studies whichmap the history of aviation over the past century - from thepromises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and tothe rise of international terrorism todayDemonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport toshape societies, bodies and individual identitiesOffers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas abouthow the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are consideredin the modern era
