Mobility, Space and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415593564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 214 str.

Peter Merriman

Opis

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon theoretical and empirical work from across the social sciences and humanities to provide a critical evaluation of the relationship between 'mobility' and 'place'/'site', reformulating places as in process, open, and dynamic spatial formations.

Recenzje

"Mobility, Space and Culture is a mature, well-written and meticulously researched book which walks a tightrope between a substantive theoretical contribution to mobilities scholarship and a fascinating examination of early motorists in Britain. I think it is a real achievement and it deserves to be widely read."— Peter Adey, Royal Holloway, University of London

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Mobility, Space and Culture  Part 1: Mobility, Space and Place  2. Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Understandings of Movement-Space  3. Mobility, Place, Placelessness  Part 2: Driving, Culture and Embodiment.  Introduction to Part 2  4. Driving Sensations and Embodied Practices  5. Gendered Driving Bodies  6. Governing Driving Subjects  Part 3: Conclusion  7. Spatialising Mobile Cultures

O autorze

Peter Merriman is a Reader in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, Wales. He is the author of Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England’s M1 Motorway (Blackwell, 2007) and an editor of Geographies of Mobilities (Ashgate, 2011) and the forthcoming Handbook of Mobilities (Routledge, 2013).