Beschreibung:
This book sets out, with remarkable clarity and insight, the contradictions of mobile societies and of mobile lives. Such mobilities are full of dilemmas, for individuals, for corporations, for states and in a way for the globe itself. 'Mobile Lives' is an up-to-date, provocatively written book which examines social processes that are on the edge.
Preface 1. Mobile Lives: A Step Too Far? 2. New Technologies, New Mobilities 3. Networks and Inequalitites 4. The Globals and Their Mobilities 5. Mobile Relationships: Intimacy At-A-Distance 6. Consuming to Excess 7. Contested Futures