Mobility, Space and Culture

In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman draws 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. He examines experiences of, and social reactions to, driving in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain to trace how the motor-car became associated with sensations of movement-space and enmeshed with debates about embodiment, health, visuality, gender and politics.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Merriman, Merriman Peter
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415736985
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73698-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: International Library of Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sports & outdoor recreation, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Human Geography, Transport: general interest, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries, Sports and Active outdoor recreation