[Commlist] New book: Communication and Mobility - The Migrant, the Mobile Phone and the Container Box

New book

/Communication and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone and the 
Container Box/

The book offers new perspectives on the intersection of communication 
and mobility. It argues for an interdisciplinary perspective on 
communications which covers a variety of mobilities - of information, of 
people and of commodities. It focuses on the migrant, the mobile phone 
and the container box as three key icons of our era and is published by 
Wiley.

Its further details are available via this link: 
https://www.wiley.com/en-bz/Communications+and+Mobility:+The+Migrant,+the+Mobile+Phone,+and+the+Container+Box-p-9781405192019

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Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at 
mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century 
with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, 
the migrant, and the container box.

    Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader 
conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kinds—information, 
people, and commodities
    Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology 
studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography
    Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network 
geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, 
connectivity, containment, and exclusion
    Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary 
communication studies and theories of globalization


TOC

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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