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Mimi Sheller
Researcher at Drexel University
Publications - 132
Citations - 11265
Mimi Sheller is an academic researcher from Drexel University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mobilities & Politics. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 124 publications receiving 9679 citations. Previous affiliations of Mimi Sheller include Australian National University & Lancaster University.
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The new mobilities paradigm.
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw out some characteristics, properties, and implications of the new mobilities paradigm, especially documenting some novel mobile theories and methods, and reflect on how far this paradigm has developed and thereby to extend and develop the mobility turn within the social sciences.
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Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings
TL;DR: Mobility has become an evocative keyword for the twenty-first century and a powerful discourse that creates its own effects and contexts as mentioned in this paper, and the concept of mobilities encompasses both the large-scale...
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The City and the Car
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the car reconfigures urban life, involving distinct ways of dwelling, travelling and socializing in, and through, an automobilized time-space, and argues that civil society should be reconceptualized as a civil society of automobility.
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Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car
TL;DR: Car cultures have social, material and, above all, affective dimensions that are overlooked in current strategies to influence car-driving decisions as mentioned in this paper, and car consumption is never simply about rational consumption.
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Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life.
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: The distinction of public and private life is often conceived of as statically'regional' in character as mentioned in this paper, and it is argued that massive changes are occurring in the nature of both private and public life and especially of the relations between them.