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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