TY - BOOK ID - 32076344 TI - Choreographing the Airport : Field Notes from the Transit Spaces of Global Mobility PY - 2018 SN - 331969572X 3319695711 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, DB - UniCat KW - Airports KW - Air travel KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Social aspects. KW - Performing arts. KW - Culture. KW - Dance. KW - Technology. KW - Performing Arts. KW - Global/International Culture. KW - Culture and Technology. KW - Applied science KW - Arts, Useful KW - Science, Applied KW - Useful arts KW - Science KW - Industrial arts KW - Material culture KW - Dances KW - Dancing KW - Amusements KW - Performing arts KW - Balls (Parties) KW - Eurythmics KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076344 AB - 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. ER -