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1. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

   Edited by Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller

   The twenty-first century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last. With cheap travel, and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030, more people and more goods are moving ever faster, farther and more frequently. Moreover, the media are bringing experiences and...

   To Be Published December 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Mobile Technologies of the City

   Edited by Mimi Sheller, John Urry

   Series: Networked Cities Series

   Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social...

   Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge
3. Tourism Mobilities

   Places to Play, Places in Play

   By Mimi Sheller, John Urry

   Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global...

   Published July 7th 2004 by Routledge
4. Consuming the Caribbean

   From Arawaks to Zombies

   By Mimi Sheller

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of...

   Published February 26th 2003 by Routledge