Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and research that are global in scope. It is the first book of its kind, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to aviation and air travel in the social sciences and humanities, while emphasizing the central role of aeromobilities in contemporary social relations. In a world where virtually every aspect of social life is touched upon, in one way or another, by the complex global network of airline flows, with its large passenger aircraft and iconic international airports, Aeromobilities provides innovative analyses of some of the most fundamental and influential mobility networks of our time.

Introducing Aeromobilities Saulo Cwerner Part 1: Aeromobilities, Globalization and Social Theory 1. Aeromobilities and the Global John Urry 2. Global Transfer Points: the Making of Airports in the Mobile Risk Society Sven Kesselring Part 2: The Production of Airspaces 3. >store>forward> Architectures of a Future Tense Gillian Fuller 4 Connecting the World: Analyzing Global City Networks Through Airline Flows Ben Derudder, Nathalie Van Nuffel and Frank Witlox 5. Airport Codes/Spaces Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge 6. Air Craft: Producing UK Airspace Lucy Budd 7. Around the World in 80 Airports Ross Rudesch Harley Part 3: The Social Life of Air Travel 8. Airborne on Time Peter Peters 9. A Life in Corridors: Social Perspectives on Aeromobilities and Work in Knowledge Organizations Claus Lassen 10. Getting into the Flow Peter Adey Part 4: Governing Air Travel 11. Science, Expertise, and Local Knowledge in Airport Conflicts: Towards a Cosmopolitical Approach Guillaume Faburel and Lisa Levy 12. Helipads, Heliports and Urban Air Space: Governing the Contested Infrastructure of Helicopter Travel Saulo Cwerner