Dear All,
I don't think we've had a formal announcement here so far, so here it is ...
At the Cycling & Society Symposium last week, we had the launch of
Cycling & Society, co-edited by Dave Horton, Paul Rosen & Peter Cox,
published by Ashgate at £55. You can download a flyer from the files
area of the jiscmail listserv - at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/cycling-and-society. On-line orders from
Ashgate get a discount. Here is the publisher's blurb:
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.
To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com
All online orders receive a discount
Alternatively, contact our distributor:
Bookpoint Ltd, Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales,
130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1235 827730 Fax: +44 (0)1235 400454
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September 2007
222 pages
Hardback
978-0-7546-4844-4
£55.00
Cycling and Society
Edited by Dave Horton, Lancaster University, UK, Paul Rosen,
University of York, UK and Peter Cox, University of Chester, UK
‘This is a very timely book by an impressive list of contributors and it
will go a long way to put cycling very
firmly on the serious policy agenda. Cycling has an enormous amount to
offer to a broad range of societal
and policy objectives ranging from improving health to local economic
regeneration and combating climate
change. This book exposes the full glory of cycling’s potential and is
most welcome.’ – John Whitelegg,
editor of World Transport Policy and Practice
Sample pages for published titles are available to view online at:
www.ashgate.com
Contents: Introduction: cycling and society, Dave Horton, Peter
Cox and Paul Rosen; Cycling the city: non-place and the sensory
construction of meaning in a mobile practice, Justin Spinney;
Capitalising on curiosity: women’s professional cycle racing in the
late 19th century, Clare Simpson; Barriers to cycling: an exploration
of quantitative analyses, John Parkin, Tim Ryley and Tim Jones; Hell
is other cyclists: rethinking transport and identity, David Skinner and
Paul Rosen; The flaneur on wheels?, Nicholas Oddy; Bicycles don’t
evolve: velomobiles and the modelling of transport technologies,
Peter Cox with Frederick Van De Walle; Fear of cycling, Dave Horton;
Men, women and the bicycle: gender and social geography of
cycling in the late 19th century, Philip Gordon Mackintosh and Glenn
Norcliffe; Bicycle messengers: image, identity and community, Ben
Fincham.
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Dr Paul Rosen
Research Fellow
Stockholm Environment Institute, York
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
Tel.: 01904 434577
Mobile: 07984 077106
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