Research Catalog

Title

Critical geographies of cycling : history, political economy and culture / Glen Norcliffe York University, Canada.

Author

Norcliffe, G. B.

Publication

• Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

xiv, 275 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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.

Series Statement

Transport and society

Uniform Title

Transport and society.

Subjects

• Bicycle industry > History
• Cycling > History
• Cycling > Economic aspects
• Cycling > Political aspects
• Transportation geography
• Bicycles > History
• Cycling > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-3076

ISBN

• 9781472439116
• 1472439112
• 9781472439123 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472439130 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014046294

OCLC

907204675

Author

Norcliffe, G. B., author.

Title

Critical geographies of cycling : history, political economy and culture / Glen Norcliffe York University, Canada.

Publisher

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transport and society

Transport and society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3076