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Author: Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.650kg
ISBN: 9780415883061
ISBN 10: 0415883067
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 20 January 2012
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Format: Hardback
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
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).
