Critical geographies of cycling: history, political economy and culture / created by Glen Norcliffe

By:

Norcliffe, Glen [author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781472439116

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LOC classification:

HE5736 NOR

Contents:

For a geography of cycling -- Spaces of cycling: G-cot: the geographical construction of technology -- The aha! myth: geographically embedded innovation in the Canadian cycle industry 1868-1900 -- Popeism and fordism: examining the roots of mass production -- Hypermobile global production networks: links of the Canadian cycle industry with China and Taiwan (with Boyang Gao and Weidong Liu) -- Places of cycling:- Associations, modernity and club citizenship in a Victorian highwheel bicycle club -- Men, women and the bicycle in the late nineteenth century (with Phillip Gordon Mackintosh) -- "Thirty thousand wheelmen who never smile": national identity and the rise of the Canadian Wheelman's Association -- Performing the bicycle trade show (with Michael Andreae and Jinn-yuh Hsu) -- Neoliberal mobility and its discontents: working tricycles in China's cities -- Right to the road.

Summary: "Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle, the Cyclists's Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different places. With this in mind, the essays in the book are divided into two sections: Spaces of Cycling which treats the location of the technological development, production and trade of cycles and Places of Cycling which interprets the specific places of consumption - the streets of the city, in the cycling clubs, among men and women, and at the trade show. Written from a geographer's integrative perspective to offer a broad understanding of cycling, this book will also be of interest to other social scientists in urban studies, cultural studies, technology and society, sociology, history and environmental planning"--Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Book	Harare Campus Library Open Shelf	HE5736 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	148407	Available	BK135139
Book	Harare Campus Library Open Shelf	HE5736 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	148255	Available	BK134924
Core Collection	Main Library Core Collection	HE5736 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	152450	Available	BK139339
Book	Main Library Open Shelf	HE5736 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	152451	Available	BK139652

Includes bibliographical references and index.

For a geography of cycling --
Spaces of cycling: G-cot: the geographical construction of technology --
The aha! myth: geographically embedded innovation in the Canadian cycle industry 1868-1900 --
Popeism and fordism: examining the roots of mass production --
Hypermobile global production networks: links of the Canadian cycle industry with China and Taiwan (with Boyang Gao and Weidong Liu) --
Places of cycling:- Associations, modernity and club citizenship in a Victorian highwheel bicycle club --
Men, women and the bicycle in the late nineteenth century (with Phillip Gordon Mackintosh) --
"Thirty thousand wheelmen who never smile": national identity and the rise of the Canadian Wheelman's Association --
Performing the bicycle trade show (with Michael Andreae and Jinn-yuh Hsu) --
Neoliberal mobility and its discontents: working tricycles in China's cities --
Right to the road.

"Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle, the Cyclists's Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different places. With this in mind, the essays in the book are divided into two sections: Spaces of Cycling which treats the location of the technological development, production and trade of cycles and Places of Cycling which interprets the specific places of consumption - the streets of the city, in the cycling clubs, among men and women, and at the trade show. Written from a geographer's integrative perspective to offer a broad understanding of cycling, this book will also be of interest to other social scientists in urban studies, cultural studies, technology and society, sociology, history and environmental planning"--Provided by publisher.

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