NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era

NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOKPRIZE 2011!This theoretically informed research explores what thedevelopment and transformation of air travel has meant forsocieties and individuals.* Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approachestowards the aeroplane and its relation to society* Presents an original theory that our societies are aerialsocieties, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled andthreatened by aerial mobility* Features a series of detailed international case studies whichmap the history of aviation over the past century - from thepromises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and tothe rise of international terrorism today* Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport toshape societies, bodies and individual identities* Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas abouthow the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are consideredin the modern era

Figures and Tables ixSeries Editors' Preface xAcknowledgements xi1 Introduction 1Prologue 1Overview 6Aerial Life 8Powering Up Aerial Geographies 13The Organization of the Book 21Part One Becoming Aerial 232 Birth of the Aerial Body 25Introduction 25Beginnings 28'Handsome Is as Handsome Does': Disassembling the Aerial Body 30The Flesh of the Aerial Youth 41Simulation 45Conclusion 523 The Projection and Performance of Airspace 54Introduction 54Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory 57Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power 70Conclusion 80Part Two Governing Aerial Life 834 Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics 85Introduction 85Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing Populations 86Techniques of the Observer/Observed 103Three-Dimensional Vision 109Conclusion 1135 Profiling Machines 114Introduction 114Imagining the Pilot/Passenger 117Sorting 124Modifying 132Conclusion 144Part Three Aerial Aggression 1456 Aerial Environments 147Introduction 147The Emergence of a Target 149Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare 161Air Conditioning 170Conclusion 1777 Subjects under Siege 179Warning 179Introduction 181The Anatomy of Panic 185Imaginations and Urgencies 189Vigilance and the Social as Circuit 191Entrainment 198Conclusion 2058 Conclusion 206Environments 207Futures 208Aerial Turns 209Notes 211Bibliography 228Index 255