Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
30 April 2008 repeat 04 May
PASSENGERING Dr Eric Laurier is a research fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh; together with his colleagues he recently made a study of the distinctive ways in which people behave in cars. He reveals his findings about the conversational conventions and rituals of car passengers.
SUPERCLASS The global superclass is made up of 6,000-7,000 people whose influence is so great that it dwarfs the power of nation states. Laurie Taylor is joined by David Rothkopf the author of a new book called Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making and Saskia Sassen Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology at the LSE to discuss who the members of this superclass are, how they affect our lives, and whether or not we should be doing anything to regulate their incredible power.
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Dr Eric Laurier Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh
Driving and “passengering” notes on the ordinary organization of car travel Laurier, E., Lorimer, H, Brown, B., Owain Jones, Oskar Juhlin, Allyson Noble, Mark Perry, Daniele Pica, Philippe Sormani, Ignaz Strebel, Laurel Swan, Alex S. Taylor, Laura Watts & Alexandra Weilenmann (2008) notes on the ordinary organisation of car travel, Mobilities, 3, 1, 1-23
David Rothkopf President and chief executive of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Teacher in international affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN-10: 140870109X ISBN-13: 978-1408701096
Saskia Sassen Centennial professor in the department of sociology at LSE and the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
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