This course introduces students to the study of current
mobilities of everything (people, ideas, goods, capital,
and images), the social, cultural and political aspects
of the infrastructure and workings of mobility places
and systems, and the historical formation of the
mobility of as an inseparable feature of civilization,
modernity and globalization. Topics to be
covered include Mobilities Theory; cities as interfaces
and spaces of travel and tourism; inequalities
across (im)mobilities; historical development of
transportation systems; global structures of mobilities;
airports, railways, and container ports; mutual
constitution of transportation, travel and tourism;
social, cultural and economic impacts of transportation
systems and hubs over place-making and social relations.
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