Mobilities and Inequality (Transport and Society)

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Author(s): Timo Ohnmacht, Hanja Maksim, Manfred Max Bergman
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 238

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Mobilities and Inequality –An Introduction......Page 16
PART I Theory, Concepts, and Findings on Mobilities and Inequality......Page 20
1 Mobilities and Inequality –Making Connections......Page 22
2 Unequal Mobilities......Page 42
3 Life Course Inequalities in the Globalisation Process......Page 66
4 Metaphors of Mobility –Inequality on the Move......Page 90
PART II Empirical Applications......Page 112
5 Mobilities and Social Network Geography: Size and Spatial Dispersion – the Zurich Case Study......Page 114
6 Social Integration Faced with Commuting: More Widespread and Less Dense Support Networks......Page 136
7 Here, There, and In-Between: On the Interplay of Multilocal Living, Space, and Inequality......Page 160
8 Class Divides within Transnationalisation –The German Population and its Cross-Border Practices......Page 180
9 Residential Location, Mobility and the City: Mediating and Reproducing Social Inequity......Page 202
10 Mobility and the Promotion of Public Transport in Johannesburg......Page 222
Index......Page 234