Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box

Author

• Morley, David

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2017

Language

English

ISBN

9781119372080

Series

Subject(s)

• COMMUNICATION
• COMMUNICATION AND GEOGRAPHY
• COMMUNICATION, INTERNATIONAL

Notes

• Includes index

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Abstract

Marx and Engels' concern was with the connections between the technologies for transmitting messages and transporting commodities and people, all of which was seen as part of a broader, geopolitical “science of territory” ‐ a set of concerns which are readily re‐codable into contemporary debates about deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The analysis of the movement of people and commodities has largely been relegated to the discipline of transport studies and remains neglected by communications scholars. In relation to the constitutive role of communications, the “annihilation” of time and space has variously been attributed, at different stages, to communications technologies such as the telegraph, the telephone, the satellite, and the Internet and to transportation technologies such as the train, the road network, ocean‐going liners, and air transport. This chapter considers the materiality of symbolic discourses and the symbolic dimension of material objects and structures.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 245 p.)

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1
Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1
Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2
Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno?]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3
Sedentarism, Nomadology, and "New Mobilities" 59 4
Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5
Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6
The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III
The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7
Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8
Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9
Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199
Index 233

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