Aerial Life Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

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

Peter Adey is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at Keele University, UK. His research interests include the study of mobility and cultures of aviation and security. Adey is the author of Mobility (2009).

Figures and Tables	p. ix
Series Editors' Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue	p. 1
Overview	p. 6
Aerial Life	p. 8
Powering Up Aerial Geographies	p. 13
The Organization of the Book	p. 21
Becoming Aerial	p. 23
Birth of the Aerial Body	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
Beginnings	p. 28
'Handsome Is as Handsome Does': Disassembling the Aerial Body	p. 30
The Flesh of the Aerial Youth	p. 41
Simulation	p. 45
Conclusion	p. 52
The Projection and Performance of Airspace	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory	p. 57
Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 80
Governing Aerial Life	p. 83
Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing Populations	p. 86
Techniques of the Observer/Observed	p. 103
Three-Dimensional Vision	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 113
Profiling Machines	p. 114
Introduction	p. 114
Imagining the Pilot/Passenger	p. 117
Sorting	p. 124
Modifying	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 144
Aerial Aggression	p. 145
Aerial Environments	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
The Emergence of a Target	p. 149
Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare	p. 161
Air Conditioning	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 177
Subjects under Siege	p. 179
Warning	p. 179
Introduction	p. 181
The Anatomy of Panic	p. 185
Imaginations and Urgencies	p. 189
Vigilance and the Social as Circuit	p. 191
Entrainment	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 205
Conclusion	p. 206
Environments	p. 207
Futures	p. 208
Aerial Turns	p. 209
Notes	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 255
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