new formations no 43

MOBILITIES

Editor: Tim Cresswell

This issue of new formations leads with three essays edited by Tim Cresswell on the contemporary fascination with all things mobile. Mobilities on a world scale, whether chosen or necessitated, have become one of the defining features of a global economy. Images of mobility provide some of postmodern theory's most salient metaphors. Questioning the sense of freedom implicit in many commentaries on travel and movement, the essays resist abstract theorisation to look at the production of different kinds of mobility. Using examples that include the migration of Mexican agricultural workers to California's Central Valley and the new immigration controls implemented by the EU, they seek to argue that the material consequences of mobility are often a far cry from the pleasures and privileges of travel and tourism.
Other topics included in this issue are: two articles on Northern Ireland, on the politics of movement and belonging and on the politics of culture across the sectarian divide; the strange relationship between human and animal in Disney; the politics of imagism; and sexual anxiety in Patricia Cornwell's fiction.

Contents and Contributors:

Scott McCracken Editorial
Tim Cresswell Mobilities - An Introduction
Tim Cresswell The Production of Mobilities
Ginette Verstraete Technological Frontiers and the Politics of Mobilities
Don Mitchell The Devil's Arm: Points of Passage, Networks of Violence, and the California Agricultural Landscape
Vikki Bell Negotiating and Narrating Emplacement: Belonging and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Alan Finlayson Culture, Politics and Cultural Politics in Northern Ireland
Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan Walt Disney's Ape-Man: Race, Writing and Humanism
Rebecca Beasley Art as Propaganda for Literary Modernism
Eluned Summers-Bremner Post-Traumatic Woundings: Sexual Anxiety in Patricia Cornwell's Fiction

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