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Airport Geographies of Spectatorship, Position, and (im)Mobility

Bibliographic Data

ID4873575
AuthorsP Adey (0000-0001-6807-4282, Earth Sciences and Geography, Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG, England, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume25
Issue3
Pages515-536
Publication date2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d69j
OpenAlexW2022209793
LanguageEN
Citations received53
References cited74

This paper is concerned with the immobilities which airports induce and force to occur by positioning passengers through various and perhaps unconscious technological arrangements and performances of spectatorship. Through a conceptual reworking of spectatorship, these processes are explored through examples which range from the first airports, which functioned as city destinations from which to watch aircraft, to the carefully structured terminals of today. The airport is rethought as a space not merely to travel through but one which is designed to hold people in specific spaces. The paper also discusses the rationale behind these occurrences as they do not happen by random but are dictated by the forces of airline and airport regulation and economics

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