| Description |
xi, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Changing mobilities |
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Changing mobilities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The movement of the few / Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrío -- Elsewhere : tracking the mobile lives of globals / Anthony Elliott -- Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich : a conceptual framework / Jonathan V. Beaverstock and James R. Faulconbridge -- Elite formation in the third industrial revolution / Thomas Birtchnell, Gil Viry and John Urry -- Aeromobile elites : private business aviation and the global economy / Lucy Budd -- Super-rich lifestyles / Mike Featherstone -- The ease of mobility / Shamus Rahman Khan -- The uneven pragmatics of affordable luxury tourism in inland Yucatán (México) / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Ana García Silberman and Juan Córdoba Ordóñez -- Visible-invisible : the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism / Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski -- This is not me : conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes / Javier Caletrío -- Tracing the super rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state / Malene Freudendal-Pedersen -- The super-rich and offshore worlds / John Urry -- Epilogue: The bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations / Mimi Sheller -- Postscript: Elite mobilities and critique / Andrew Sayer. |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences)
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Emigration and immigration.
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Globalization.
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Elite (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst00908113
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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| Added Author |
Birtchnell, Thomas.
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Caletrío, Javier.
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| ISBN |
9780415655804 (hardback) |
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0415655803 (hardback) |
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9780203078532 (ebook) |
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0203078535 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40022784019 |
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