Spaces of MobilityThe Planning, Ethics, Engineering and Religion of Human Motion
Edited by: Sigurd Bergmann, Thomas Hoff, Tore Sager
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Description
Conflicts surrounding modern human mobility are more than one hundred years old, and are deeply connected to the history of modernization and globalization. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume do not offer one single theory or methodology for mobility studies, but are instead meant to promote the development of overarching approaches in the future.
The first section contains reflections on the socio-political, environmental, and ethical aspects of mobility, where “hypermobility” causes serious and deep damage to social planning, and in doing so, creates an explosive challenge to democracy. Through its enormous energy consumption, hypermobility also produces problematic impacts on local and global natural environments, which makes it necessary to refocus the analysis of attitudes towards mobility patterns. From an ethical perspective, mobility represents a marginal but still crucial challenge to reflect on why and how modern modes of transport emerge, are preserved and could or could not be transformed.
The second section emphasises the interaction between surroundings, artefacts and the individual. Taking the theory of ecological psychology as their point of departure, the contributions to this section focus on the understanding of the human person as an integrated embodied mind in the environment. They highlight the ways in which modes of technologically based movement affect the identity of “mobile humans”, and they discuss how global mobility affects the self-understanding and moral identity of human beings with regard to their existential embeddedness in place.
The final section focuses on the sociological differentiation of the “landscape” of mobility. A focus on the specific conditions, situations and practices of immigrants, children and elderly in technically constructed and socially negotiated traffic and transport systems offers a picture that is not normally a part of political processes. Focussing on differences between human beings makes it necessary to question ideologies, practices and designs of contemporary transport systems.
All contributions have been produced by the authors in the context of an inter- and transdisciplinary research project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2003-2006, titled “Technical Spaces of Mobility – Human ecological perspectives on human space and motion in aesthetic and ethical horizons”.
Conflicts surrounding modern human mobility are more than one hundred years old, and are deeply connected to the history of modernization and globalization. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume do not offer one single theory or methodology for mobility studies, but are instead meant to promote the development of overarching approaches in the future.
The first section contains reflections on the socio-political, environmental, and ethical aspects of mobility, where “hypermobility” causes serious and deep damage to social planning, and in doing so, creates an explosive challenge to democracy. Through its enormous energy consumption, hypermobility also produces problematic impacts on local and global natural environments, which makes it necessary to refocus the analysis of attitudes towards mobility patterns. From an ethical perspective, mobility represents a marginal but still crucial challenge to reflect on why and how modern modes of transport emerge, are preserved and could or could not be transformed.
The second section emphasises the interaction between surroundings, artefacts and the individual. Taking the theory of ecological psychology as their point of departure, the contributions to this section focus on the understanding of the human person as an integrated embodied mind in the environment. They highlight the ways in which modes of technologically based movement affect the identity of “mobile humans”, and they discuss how global mobility affects the self-understanding and moral identity of human beings with regard to their existential embeddedness in place.
The final section focuses on the sociological differentiation of the “landscape” of mobility. A focus on the specific conditions, situations and practices of immigrants, children and elderly in technically constructed and socially negotiated traffic and transport systems offers a picture that is not normally a part of political processes. Focussing on differences between human beings makes it necessary to question ideologies, practices and designs of contemporary transport systems.
All contributions have been produced by the authors in the context of an inter- and transdisciplinary research project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2003-2006, titled “Technical Spaces of Mobility – Human ecological perspectives on human space and motion in aesthetic and ethical horizons”.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Sigurd Bergmann/Thomas Hoff/Tore Sager
2. The Beauty of Speed or the Cross of Mobility? – Introductory Reflections on the Aesth/Ethics of Space, Justice and Motion
Sigurd Bergmann
3. Hypermobility and the Forecast-free Planning of Society
Tore Sager
4. ‘Green’ attitudes and sustainable household consumption of energy and
transport – Six conditions that improve attitude-behaviour consistency
Erling Holden
5. Travelling as Pilgrimage – Ecotheological Contributions to Mobility Ethics
Anders Melin
6. The Bodily Basis of Control in Technically Aided Movement
Kjell Ivar Overgard/Cato Alexander Bjørkli/Thomas Hoff
7. What Modes of Moving Do to Me – Reflections about Technogenic Processes of Identification
David Kronlid
8. Global Vagabonds, Place and the Self: Psychological affects on
work-related mobility on morality and world view
Peter Nynäs
9. Mobility: Discourses from the non-western immigrant groups in Norway
Tanu Priya Uteng
10. Inclusive Mobility - Participation, Physical Barriers and the Concept of Universal Design
Liv Øvstedal
11. Freedom as Mobility – Implications of the distinction between potential and revealed travelling
Tore Sager
Reviews
'The book will appeal to scientists and engineers who are involved in technology and society in general, and transportation and land use in particular; it will appeal especially to those who have a philosophical bent.'
J.C. Swearengen, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, December 2009
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845533399 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845533397 |
| Price (Hardback) | £65.00/$95.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845533402 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845533403 |
| Price (Paperback) | £22.95/$39.95 |
| Publication Date | October 2008 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Illustrations | 18 figures |
| Readership | scholars |
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