Overview
The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and reflects on the performance of travel and on the consequences of ferry-dependence on island and coastal communities. Ferry Tales inaugurates a new series entitled Innovative Ethnographies for Routledge (innovativeethnographies.net). The purpose of this hypermedia book series is to use digital technologies to capture a richer, multimodal view of social life than was otherwise done in the classic, print-based tradition of ethnography, while maintaining the traditional strengths of classic, ethnographic analysis. Visit the book's website at www.ferrytales.innovativeethnographies.net
Full Product Details
Author: Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.362kg
ISBN: 9780415883078
ISBN 10: 0415883075
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 20 January 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""This is a book to savor slowly. Presented as a multimedia experimental ethnography embedded with sound recordings, maps, photos, and website, Ferry Tales will transform how we share scholarship as well as how we think about mobility and moorings.""--Mimi Sheller, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University ""This deliciously written (and titled) text is a mobile ethnography of performance, action and ritual as played out on and around the islands and coasts on Canada's west coast. Ferry Tales will transport readers to fresh and humane reconstitutions of space, place, time, and technology.""--Godfrey Baldacchino, Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada"
This is a book to savor slowly. Presented as a multimedia experimental ethnography embedded with sound recordings, maps, photos, and website, Ferry Tales will transform how we share scholarship as well as how we think about mobility and moorings. -Mimi Sheller, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University This deliciously written (and titled) text is a mobile ethnography of performance, action and ritual as played out on and around the islands and coasts on Canada's west coast. Ferry Tales will transport readers to fresh and humane reconstitutions of space, place, time, and technology. -Godfrey Baldacchino, Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada ...in his direct and affectionate observations of how we live and move on this coast, he captures us as individuals and as a culture. -Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
This is a book to savor slowly. Presented as a multimedia experimental ethnography embedded with sound recordings, maps, photos, and website, Ferry Tales will transform how we share scholarship as well as how we think about mobility and moorings. --Mimi Sheller, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University This deliciously written (and titled) text is a mobile ethnography of performance, action and ritual as played out on and around the islands and coasts on Canada's west coast. Ferry Tales will transport readers to fresh and humane reconstitutions of space, place, time, and technology. --Godfrey Baldacchino, Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada ...in his direct and affectionate observations of how we live and move on this coast, he captures us as individuals and as a culture. --Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
<p> This is a book to savor slowly. Presented as a multimedia experimental ethnography embedded with sound recordings, maps, photos, and website, Ferry Tales will transform how we share scholarship as well as how we think about mobility and moorings. Mimi Sheller, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University <p> This deliciously written (and titled) text is a mobile ethnography of performance, action and ritual as played out on and around the islands and coasts on Canada 's west coast. Ferry Tales will transport readers to fresh and humane reconstitutions of space, place, time, and technology. Godfrey Baldacchino, Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Author Information
Phillip Vannini is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, in Victoria, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author and editor of eight books including Understanding Society through Popular Music (with Joe Kotarba), and The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society (both published by Routledge).
