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Bicycle messengers: image, identity and community

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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.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Ashgate

Page range

179-197

Pages

19.0

Book title

Cycling and Society

Place of publication

Aldershot

ISBN

9780754648444

Series

Transport and Society

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Dave Horton, Peter Cox, Paul Rosen

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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