Download: Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman
Mobility,
Space and Culture
Author(s):
Peter Merriman
Series:
International Library of Sociology
Publisher:
Routledge, Year: 2012
Description:
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.
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. Merriman draws upon post-structuralist
writings on space, practice and society to demonstrate how movement is not
simply practised or experienced in relation to space and time, but gives rise
to rhythms, forces, atmospheres, affects and materialities which are often more
crucial to embodied apprehensions of events than sensibilities of spatiality
and temporality. He draws upon detailed empirical research on 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.
The book will be essential reading for
undergraduates and postgraduates studying mobility in sociology, geography,
cultural studies, politics, transport studies, and history.
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