health professionals, delivery drivers, and grocery workers, kept the world moving. Similarly, with airplanes grounded, cars parked, and residents self-isolated, one mode of mobility gained prominence: small remotely-controlled aerial systems known as
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Pandemic Drones
Promises and Perils
Julia M. Hildebrand and Stephanie Sodero
Balloons in the Historiography of Aerial Mobility
Marie Thébaud-Sorger
In the history of aeronautics, the balloon has long been regarded as relatively unimportant—or even excluded from the field; “lighter-than-air” technology (to use the expression coined by Nadar) was considered a dead-end which may have delayed the arrival of airplanes at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, in the early years of aviation, both technologies were deeply interrelated on numerous levels, sharing the same milieu of entrepreneurs, pilots (for instance the remarkable Santos Dumont) and public enthusiasm. But the disappearance of dirigibles accompanies the construction of a heroic history of powered flight by the airplane as a symbol of modernity. However, the focus has recently shifted, through the work of eminent aviation historians such as Tom Crouch,1 and also because dirigible history has returned to the scene—for instance through the excellent studies of Guillaume de Syon who has stressed the popular and political mobilization that sustained the impressive development of this technology from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the 1930s. From the point of view of the aeronautics community (lobbies, technicians and publicists), 1880s dirigibles were a technology of the future that inherited a longstanding culture originating in the first aerostatic experiments at the end of the eighteenth century. If balloons could not yet be steered, aerial displacement was indeed a practical technique applied in races and experiments, and associated with learned societies, conferences and shows. Such endeavors nourished public expectations, political investments and, with the introduction of the dirigible, even fostered an institutional regulatory framework in the first international aerial law, as in the international conference at La Haye in 1899.
In Mobility in History
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 83–88 (6 total)
William Le Queux, the Zeppelin Menace and the Invisible Hand
Brett Holman
British society through what he called the ‘Invisible Hand’, which he identified with German-born men naturalised as British citizens. Neither aerial bombardment nor naturalised Germans had featured largely in Le Queux's prewar writing, but by resorting to
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 99–118 (20 total)
Governing Global Aeromobility
Canada and Airport Refugee Claimants in the 1980s
Bret Edwards
governed aerial and cosmopolitan populations. In response, Canadian authorities erected an enforcement regime largely centered on the country’s international airports, which transformed them into contested entry points to national space and normative
Aeromobilities in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Weiqiang Lin
of climate concerns—that will likely still animate aerial life. Here, the past and the future meet in a meaningful way. The pioneers of Transfers have started a good work, and it is now time to continue in it with a considered retrospection
Book Reviews
Andrew Barnfield, Annika Lindberg, Aliou Ly, Liz Montegary, Michael Nattrass, Emma Park, Anna Plyushteva, Daniel Newman, Rebecca A. Adelman, Beth E. Notar, and Stephen Zigmund
, 2014). 2 Daniel Newman, “The Car and the Commons”, Review of Radical Political Economics 48 no. 1 (2016): 53-65. Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018
The Historiography of Asian Aeromobilities
Marielle Stigum Gleiss and Weiqiang Lin
Historical research has recently found new interest in aviation and aeromobilities. Though productive, these discussions have mostly concentrated on knowledge frames emanating from the 'West.' This article surveys the limited range of literatures that highlight how 'other' societies perceive and (re)appropriate flight. In particular, we refer to examples from Asia to demonstrate that actors from this region likewise interact with ideas of aerial imperialism, geopolitical struggles, and nationalism. These studies prompt key historiographical questions on power, agency, and relations between the West and the non-West. They also promote a scholarship that is more reflexive about its centers of knowledge.
In Mobility in History
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- 01 Jan 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 98–105 (8 total)
Book Reviews
Claudia Lieb, Donald Weber, Anita Perkins, Monika Domman, Manuel Appert, Liz Millward, Ueli Haefeli, Heloise Finch-Boyer, Natalie Roseau, Charissa Terranova, Massimo Moraglio, Christopher Neumaeier, and Clay McShane
Christian Kassung, Die Unordnung der Dinge. Eine Wissens- und Mediengeschichte des Unfalls Claudia Lieb
Matthieu Flonneau and Arnaud Passalacqua, Utilités de l'utilitaire. Aperçu Réaliste des Services Automobiles Donald Weber
Fred Dervin, Analysing the Consequences of Academic Mobility and Migration Anita Perkins
Regine Buschauer, Mobile Räume. Medien- und Diskursgeschichtliche Studien zur Tele-Kommunikation Monika Domman
Sébastien Gardon, Goût de bouchons. Lyon, les villes françaises et l'équation automobile Manuel Appert
Peter Adey, Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Effects Liz Millward
Rainer Ruppmann, Schrittmacher des Autobahnzeitalters: Frankfurt und das Rhein-Main-Gebiet Ueli Haefeli
Frances Steel, Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914, Studies in Imperialism Heloise Finch-Boyer
Kelly Shannon and Marcel Smets, The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure Natalie Roseau
Andrew Bush, Drive Charissa Terranova
Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, Moving Minds. Conservatives and Public Transportation Massimo Moraglio
Ann Johnson, Hitting the Brakes. Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge Christopher Neumaeier
Barron H. Lerner, One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900 Clay McShane
Rethinking the Anthropology of Violence for the Twenty-First Century
From Practice to Mediation
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
. Aerial photography and radar were important optical mediations that replaced a visual inspection of warfighting in the twentieth century ( Virilio 1989 ). In the twenty-first century, commanders and soldiers share a panoptical awareness of the war zone
Politics of the Visible and the Invisible
War Images in Japanese and American Textbooks
Jessica Fernanda Conejo Muñoz, Daniel Veloza-Franco, and Julieta de Icaza Lizaola
,000 died—some immediately and others after suffering the effects of radiation.” 33 These images, which are not credited, are either aerial photographs or photographs taken from a high and distant point of view. We will proceed with a brief description of
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 43–61 (19 total)