Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and globalized since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardised object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilises and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railways. In this way, it binds them...

The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes. These flow from different social environments, but they are associated with different types of planning outcome and deployment...

This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilising, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualisation of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyse face-to-face forms of mobilisation, in order to more accurately analyse contemporary forms of...