Re-Thinking Mobility

Vincent Kaufmann, Department of Sociology, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France. Researcher at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

出版者:Ashgate

作者:Vincent Kaufmann

页数:120

出版时间:2002

价格:GBP 98.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780754618423

丛书系列:Transport and Society

图书标签:mobilityUrban

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored.

This groundbreaking examination is carried out through a discussion of the following general question: to what extent can the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems be considered as vectors of social change? It also provides an opportunity to study in greater depth the little-known field of the sociology of mobility. Following an examination of the existing controversies surrounding social fluidification, it proposes to rethink mobility using the new concept of motility. Current contributions to and research results in this new area are included and the book indicates possible new research directions, opening the way to a new form of general sociology.