NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE
2011!
This theoretically informed research explores what the development and
transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals.
- Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the
aeroplane and its relation to society
- Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies,
or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by
aerial mobility
- Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the
history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early
flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of
international terrorism today
- Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape
societies, bodies and individual identities
- Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the
social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the
modern era