Ebook: Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

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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
  

Content:
Chapter One Introduction (pages 1–22):
Chapter Two Birth of the Aerial Body (pages 25–53):
Chapter Three The Projection and Performance of Airspace (pages 54–81):
Chapter Four Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics (pages 85–113):
Chapter Five Profiling Machines (pages 114–144):
Chapter Six Aerial Environments (pages 147–178):
Chapter Seven Subjects under Siege (pages 179–205):
Chapter Eight Conclusion (pages 206–210):