Being Lighter Than Air
Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback)
Challenging Landscapes of Confinement
Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention:
Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017),
352 pp. £81 (hardback).
“Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool
Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African
City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30
(paperback).
Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges
Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual
Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn
Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback).
Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations
Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback).
The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya
Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30
(paperback).
A Sense of What Commuting Takes
David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback).
Vanishing Point? The City after the Car
Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter,
Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT
Press), 326 pp, $29.95
Troubling the “View from Above”
Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25.
Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation
Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility
and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv +
328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback).
No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston
Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in
Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)
