Mobility Paradigm In Johannesburg

Author : Inolofatseng Lekaba
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346092518
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility Paradigm in Johannesburg written by Inolofatseng Lekaba and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 75%, , course: Community Studies, language: English, abstract: Racially shaped mobility patterns in South Africa date back to the colonial and apartheid eras. Apartheid as an oppressive system of social engineering through spatial segregation confined the mobility of black people. The mobility of white people was encouraged and facilitated more so in ‘white’ spaces or those spaces deemed too good for the black majority. The persistence of the apartheid space economy in the post-apartheid city implies that although mobility is no longer restricted by harsh laws, it is limited by economics and politics of the stomach. However, inter and intra-city mobility of black citizens has sharply increased with the dawn of democracy and so has the influx of migrant populations into these postapartheid urban spaces. Against this backdrop, this essay will illuminate the processes that have influenced the production of post-apartheid Johannesburg. The theoretical framework of this paper is the mobility/fixity theory supported by Lefebvre’s ‘production of space’. The paper seeks to zero in on the two most prominent displays of mobility/fixity in the production of space as it relates to Johannesburg; these are the ‘white flight’ of the 1980s and ‘Africanisation’ of the postapartheid city.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745634192
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilities written by John Urry and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Part 1 Mobile worlds 1 Mobilizing social life 2 'Mobile' theories and methods 3 The mobilities paradigm Part 2 Moving and communicating 4 Pavements and Paths 5 'Public' trains 6 Inhabiting cars and roads 7 Flying around 8 Connecting and imagining Part 3 Societies and systems on the move 9 Gates to heaven and hell 10 Networks 11 Meetings 12 Places 13 Systems and dark futures Bibliography Index.

Author : Ransford A. Acheampong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031173279
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Africa written by Ransford A. Acheampong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a collection of insightful conceptual and empirical works that situate transport and mobility challenges in the unique context of individual countries and cities while highlighting commonalities across the African continent. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book covers important themes in transport and mobility including the links between urbanization, urban structure, and accessibility; transport equity and poverty, non-motorized transport, public transport, and the challenges and opportunities of new and emerging transport technologies, and ICT-mediated mobility solutions. Each chapter engages with the normative imperatives that are critical to improving the transport and mobility situations of African urban areas now and in the future.

Author : Roberto Álvarez Fernández
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319549847
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle written by Roberto Álvarez Fernández and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the relationship between large-scale industrial activity and the carbon footprint, and provides a theoretical framework and tools to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities at every stage of their life cycles, including urban-planning master plans, recycling activities, project and building stages as well as managing and manufacturing. Discussing the main preventative and corrective measures that can be utilized, it includes case studies, reports on technological developments and examples of successful policies to provide inspiration to readers. This book collects the contributions of authors from four continents, in order to analyze from as many as possible points of view and using many different approaches, the problem of sustainability in today’s globalized world.

Author : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030270726
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilities, Literature, Culture written by Marian Aguiar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.

Author : Om Prakash Agarwal
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128114355
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility written by Om Prakash Agarwal and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in cities, thus causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution, energy insecurity and sustainability problems in cities and the planet itself, this book presents new paradigms that are emerging to address these problems, along with other topics of note, including economic efficiency, health, the well-being of cities and their residents, urban mobility transformations, and the role of social media. In addition, the book looks at Integrated Corridor Management and how it improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose. Provides previously unpublished research on new approaches to integrating governance, the changing role of IT, and shared mobility initiatives Links transportation and land use, climate change, and poverty reduction and gender, going well beyond the technical issues of transport planning Highlights successful factors that have worked and how they can be tailored to different contexts Includes learning aids, such as case studies, text boxes and chapter openers and summaries

Author : Mark Fleishman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137379340
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa written by Mark Fleishman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth's major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movement and exchange. The performance works studied here attempt to get to grips with what it feels like to be on the move and in the spaces in-between that characterises the lives, now and for centuries before, of multiple peoples who move around and pass through places like the Cape. The contributors are a broad range of mostly African authors from various parts of the continent and as such the book offers an insight into new thinking and new approaches from an emerging and important location.

Author : Roberto Castillo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000338134
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Transnational Mobility in China written by Roberto Castillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.

Author : Peter Adey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363671
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility written by Peter Adey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field, and explores the utility of mobility to illuminate a cornucopia of mobile lives: from the mass movements of individuals within global processes such as migration and tourism, to homelessness and war; from the entangled relations caught up in the movement of disease, people and aid across borders, to the inability of someone to cross over a road. The new edition explores the more sustained elaboration of mobility studies within a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and subject matters. It echoes the growing internationalization of mobility research, reflected in diverse case studies from the Global South, South Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and so far under-represented perspectives from China, Australasia, post-socialist Eastern Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. The book also features an additional chapter on mobility studies, to survey and explore the diverse quality of the field, and methodologies, in order to reflect the growing diversity of methodological approaches to mobilities, from walk-alongs and critical cartography to the mobile arts. The book offers an accessible reading of the way mobility has been tackled and understood, neatly exploring and summarizing a topic that has exploded into different variations and nuances. The text allows scholars and students alike to grasp the central importance of ‘mobility’ to social, cultural, political, economic and everyday terrains by providing accessible writings on key authors within key ideas and case study boxes, suggested further readings and summaries, while at the same time making a significant contribution to scholarly writings and debates.

Author : Daniel E Agbiboa
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472038923
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency written by Daniel E Agbiboa and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict