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Choreographing the Airport

Field Notes from the Transit Spaces of Global Mobility

By (author) Justine Shih Pearson
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, Basel, Switzerland
Published: 10th May 2019
Dimensions: w 148mm h 210mm d 8mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN-10: 331988803X
ISBN-13: 9783319888033
Barcode No: 9783319888033
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Synopsis
This book investigates the global hub airport as an exemplar of cosmopolitan culture and space. A machine made for movement, itself perched at the crossroads of the world's incessant mobility, the airport is both a symbol of and stage for the ways in which we construct and inhabit the world today. Taking an ethnographically-inflected approach, this study brings together knowledge of the moving body from dance and performance and the study of systems of mobility within cultural and mobilities studies, in order to call attention to the kinaesthetic experience of global space. What is the choreography of the global airport? How does it perform on us. How do we perform within it? Extending thinking about contemporary cosmopolitanism and cultural identity, and the performativity of places and identities, this book is essential reading for those interested in cultural debates around globalisation, the innovative application of performance theory towards everyday experience, and interdisciplinary methodologies.

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