Evacuation

“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

"Broad in scope and provocative in tone, Adey’s text is a worthy addition to increasingly significant conversations surrounding evacuation and its impacts. With little pretense, Adey dives directly into emergency evacuations of buildings and vehicles before discussing more extreme forms of evacuation in the context of WW II and the postwar period. . . . Adey cleverly presents emergency and evacuation politics as both critique and possibility, a worthwhile lesson on power relations and everyday governance." - J. Brewer, Choice

"The book is excellently written, accessible, and highly recommended for students and scholars in the fields of technology, mobility, infrastructure, and logistics."
  - Carolin Liebisch Gümüs, Technology and Culture