Adey P. Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 296 p. — ISBN10: 140518261X, ISBN13: 9781405182614.This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals.
Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society
Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility
Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today
Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities
Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern eraPrologue
Overview
Aerial Life
Powering Up Aerial Geographies
The Organization of the BookBecoming Aerial
Birth of the Aerial BodyBeginnings
‘Handsome Is as Handsome Does’: Disassembling the Aerial Body
The Flesh of the Aerial Youth
SimulationThe Projection and Performance of AirspaceBuilding a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory
Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective PowerGoverning Aerial Life
Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and BiopoliticsSeeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing Populations
Techniques of the Observer/Observed
Three-Dimensional VisionProfi ling MachinesImagining the Pilot/Passenger
Sorting
ModifyingAerial Aggression
Aerial EnvironmentsThe Emergence of a Target
Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare
Air ConditioningSubjects under Siege
WarningThe Anatomy of Panic
Imaginations and Urgencies
Vigilance and the Social as Circuit
EntrainmentEnvironments
Futures
Aerial Turns