Evacuation

Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Mobility; Air: Nature and Culture; and Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects and coauthor of Moving towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future.

“Peter Adey’s intellectual curiosity and creativity have brought us something ‘outside the box’ on an important subject. The value and profundity of Evacuation are without question. Imaginative in scope and method, it will be a significant contribution to a wide variety of disciplines.” - Caren Kaplan, author of (Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above) “Evacuation is a brilliant exposition of evacuation as event, lurking background possibility, condition, technical object, claim, circulation, and much more. It shows how evacuation reproduces and disrupts existing orders and brings about new ones as it folds providential, catastrophic, and other relations with life. The scope of what Peter Adey achieves is quite remarkable-he makes present an event, claim, and condition that we might know, in this case evacuation, and demonstrates its power to make, unmake, and remake the world. A stunning work.” - Ben Anderson, author of (Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction  11. Footsteps: Diagramming High-Rise Evacuation  312. Mobile Medical-Military Machines  603. Evacuation and Euphemism: Memory, Lexicality, and Aphasia-From the Holocaust to Japanese American “Internment”  854. “The City is to Be Evacuated”: Roads, Race, and Automobility during the Early Cold War  1155. Companion Evacuations at the Boundaries of Life  1426. A Disengagement: Evacuation, Trauma, Colonial Vertigo, and National Reproduction  1647. Seeing Evacuation Logistically  1838. Burn  206Conclusion. The End  232Notes  255References  265Index