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Author:   Peter Adey
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781478030584

ISBN 10:   1478030585
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   20 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction  1 1. Footsteps: Diagramming High-Rise Evacuation  31 2. Mobile Medical-Military Machines  60 3. Evacuation and Euphemism: Memory, Lexicality, and Aphasia—From the Holocaust to Japanese American “Internment”  85 4. “The City is to Be Evacuated”: Roads, Race, and Automobility during the Early Cold War  115 5. Companion Evacuations at the Boundaries of Life  142 6. A Disengagement: Evacuation, Trauma, Colonial Vertigo, and National Reproduction  164 7. Seeing Evacuation Logistically  183 8. Burn  206 Conclusion. The End  232 Notes  255 References  265 Index

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“Peter Adey’s intellectual curiosity and creativity has brought us something ‘outside the box’ on an important subject. The value and profundity of Evacuation is without question. Imaginative in scope and method, it will be a significant contribution to a wide variety of disciplines.” -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above *

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Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Mobility; Air: Nature and Culture; and Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects and coauthor of Moving towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future.

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