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Annette Harvey Diary, 1906-1910
No full textAnnette Harvey, of Arkansas, West Virginia, and Ohio, recounts events of her daily life in this 'Line a Day' diary. She was the daughter of William Hope Harvey, aka 'Coin' Harvey, a well-known businessman, politician, author and founder of the resort of Monte Ne and the Ozark Association. Annette's brief entries record visits, housework, dances, parties, a train trip to New York, weather, church services and socials over a 5 year period, 1906-1910. Addresses and miscellaneous thoughts, quotations, poems, are recorded at the end of the volume. A photograph of her home made in 1906 is tipped in at the front of the diary
Introduction Part I
No full textThis part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part addresses broad themes of mobilities and socialities within particular trajectories, including past and presents directions for work at the intersections of media and communications, ethnology and cultural geography, sociology and phenomenology. It emphasises the significance of research attuned to historical and geographical context, sensitive to processes and practices at the micro level, and at the same time alert to the political economic and social contexts of infrastructures and modes of communication. The part explores a critique of claims that the new technologies of our age will ultimately create a borderless world of unprecedented rates of mobility and time-space compression. It provides the analysis of the mobility of persons with that of technologies, and considers various modes of symbiosis between contemporary modes of communications and transport
Interview with Annette Lareau
No full textAnnette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press). Unequal Childhoods won the best book award from three sections of the American Sociological Association: Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Children and Youth, and Sociology of Culture (co-winner)
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