ISBN:
9780203078532
,
9781136155420
,
9781136155376
,
9781136155413
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
Series Statement:
Changing mobilities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.52
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences)
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Globalization
Abstract:
1. Introduction : the movement of the few / Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrio -- 2. Elsewhere : tracking the mobile lives of globals / Anthony Elliott -- 3. Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich : a conceptual framework / Jonathan V. Beaverstock and James R. Faulconbridge -- 4. Elite formation in the third industrial revolution / Thomas Birtchnell, Gil Viry and John Urry -- 5. Aeromobile elites : private business aviation and the global economy / Lucy Budd -- 6. Super-rich lifestyles / Mike Featherstone -- 7. The ease of mobility / Shamus Rahman Khan -- 8. The uneven pragmatics of "affordable" luxury tourism in inland Yucatan (Mexico) / Matilde Cordoba Azcarate, Ana Garcia Silberman and Juan Cordoba Ordonez -- 9. Visible-invisible : the social semiotics of labour in luxury tourism / Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski -- 10. "This is not me" : conspicuous consumption and the travel aspirations of the European middle classes / Javier Caletrio -- 11. Tracing the super rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state / Malene Freudendal-Pedersen -- 12. The super-rich and offshore worlds / John Urry -- 13. Epilogue : the bodies, spaces and tempo of elite formations / Mimi Sheller -- 14. Postscript : elite mobilities and critique / Andrew Sayer.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203078532
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