Cycling and Society

How can the social sciences help us to understand the past, present and potential futures of cycling? This timely international and interdisciplinary collection addresses this question, discussing shifts in cycling practices and attitudes, and opening up important critical spaces for thinking about the prospects for cycling. The book brings together, for the first time, analyses of cycling from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including history, sociology, geography, planning, engineering and technology. The book redresses the past neglect of cycling as a topic for sustained analysis by treating it as a varied and complex practice which matters greatly to contemporary social, cultural and political theory and action. Cycling and Society demonstrates the incredible diversity of contemporary cycling, both within and across cultures. With cycling increasingly promoted as a solution to numerous social problems across a wide range of policy areas in car-dominated societies, this book helps to open up a new field of cycling studies.

Autorentext

Dave Horton is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University. Paul Rosen is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York and Peter Cox is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Communication Studies, University of Chester

Inhalt

Introduction, DaveHorton, PeterCox, PaulRosen; Chapter 1 Cycling the City: Non-Place and the Sensory Construction of Meaning in a Mobile Practice, JustinSpinney; Chapter 2 Capitalising on Curiosity: Women's Professional Cycle Racing in the Late-Nineteenth Century, Clare S.Simpson; Chapter 3 Barriers to Cycling: An Exploration of Quantitative Analyses, JohnParkin, TimRyley, TimJones; Chapter 4 Hell is Other Cyclists: Rethinking Transport and Identity, DavidSkinner, PaulRosen; Chapter 5 The Flaneur on Wheels?, NicholasOddy; Chapter 6 Bicycles Don't Evolve: Velomobiles and the Modelling of Transport Technologies, Peter Cox with FrederickVan De Walle; Chapter 7 Fear of Cycling, DaveHorton; Chapter 8 Men, Women and the Bicycle: Gender and Social Geography of Cycling in the Late Nineteenth-Century, Phillip Gordon MackintoshGlen Norcliffe; Chapter 9 Bicycle Messengers: Image, Identity and Community, BenFincham;