Off-grid isn't a state of mind. It isn't about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas g[...]
The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility and place and culture in greater depth, and also to connect this lived experience on the British Columbia coast with many other social habitats. In the process, readers are introduced to social theorists illuminat[...]
What do road infrastructures, media networks, ferry boats, cell phones, automobiles, and airplanes have in common? As attempts to come to terms with the virtual and material distance separating people, objects, and information they are all technologies of mobility which deeply shape our ways of life[...]