Cycling cultures / edited by Peter Cox.

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Cycling studies is a rapidly growing area of investigation across the social sciences, reflecting and engaged with rapid transformations of urban mobility and concerns for sustainability. This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation. Its international contributors focus on cases studies in the UK and the Netherlands, and on cycling subcultures that cross national boundaries. By considering cycling through the lens of culture it addresses issues of diversity and complexity, both past and present. The authors cross the boundaries of academia and professional engagement, linking theory and practice, to shed light on the very real processes of change that are reshaping our mobility.

English

Includes bibliographical references.

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Title pages; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Cycling Cultures and Social Theory -- Peter Cox; A Diversity of Machinery; Cycling, Radical Social Movements and Multiculturalism; Cycling as a Social Movement; Chapter 2 -- Diversity in Cycle Policies -- Ida J Sabelis; Criticizing Paradise; Unravelling Dutch Cycling Culture; What is Under the Surface? (Results from the First Inquiry); Policies, Politics and the Status of Cycling (Results from the Second Inquiry); Conclusions.

Chapter 3 -- Rhetoric and Reality: Understanding the English Cycling Situation Dave Horton and Tim JonesUnderstanding Cycling in England; The Majority Who Do Not Cycle for Transport; The Minority Who Do Cycle for Transport; ""Inevitable"" Mobility: Ideology and Culture; Towards a Plural Mobility with Cycling at its Heart; Chapter 4 -- Lessons Learned Through Training Immigrant Women in the Netherlands to Cycle -- Angela van der Kloof; Dutch Women on Bicycles; Differences in Bicycle Use; A Journey Towards Understanding the Teaching of Cycling; Materials and Methods.

The Politics of Bicycle LessonsConclusion; Chapter 5 -- Mapping Everyday Cycling in London -- Brian Deegan; Cycle Maps of London; A Typology of Cycle Maps; So How Do People Get Around?; Conclusions; Chapter 6 -- Cargo Bikes: Distributing Consumer Goods -- Peter Cox and Randy Rzewnicki; Origins; After 1945; The Cargo Bike is Dead, Long Live the Cargo Bike; The Re-Invention of the Commercial Cargo Bike; Conclusions; Chapter 7 -- Randonneurship -- A Modern Cycling Construction -- Heike Bunte; Sportive Riding as Disciplined Subordination; Randonneuring as Work-Oriented Long-Distance Cycling.

The 90-Hours (Self-) TestRandonneurship Between Modern Adventurism and Meta-Qualification; Randonneurs as Both Bricoleurs and Entrepreneurs; The Randonneur Bike as an Artefact of Progress?; Randonneurs and Change; Conclusions; Chapter 8 -- Women, Gendered Roles, Domesticity and Cycling in Britain, 1930-1980 -- Peter Cox; Women and Cycling at the End of the 1920s; ""Wheelwisdom for Women""; Clothing and Femininity; The War and its Aftermath; A Minor Resurgence?; Conclusions; Postscript -- Cycling Cultures, Culture and Cycling -- Peter Cox; A Kaleidoscopic View.

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