Hello
 I've been working this past month on the place and experience of
cycling in Southern Brasil if that's any use. You also might have a look
at the huge numbers of presentations from previous Velo-city and
VeloMondiale conferences, and Ive got a couple of chapters on
Sub-Saharan Africa in my book - Moving People (London: Zed 2010)
Peter

>>> "Deegan, Brian (Env)" <[log in to unmask]> 14/04/2010 10:27
>>>
Hello Adonia,

 

You could try http://www.sutp.org/ its more policy than anthropology
but there are lots of documents from around the world with references to
specific cycling projects.  In particular there are lots of links to
cycling projects in Indonesia.  It might be a good place to start.

 

Regards,

 

Brian Deegan
LCN+ Project Development Manager

www.londoncyclenetwork.org.uk <http://www.londoncyclenetwork.org.uk/> 


Telephone: 020 7974 8710



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Subject: Re: Good sources on bikes and culture in Africa and Asia?

 

Adonia Lugo:

This is probably irrelevant and may be simply self-advertisement (which
is why I'm addressing this "reply to all"), but I have written a chapter
in my possibly forthcoming memoirs on bicycling in Northern Nigeria when
I was teaching in Zaria 1958-60 that I would be happy to send you if you
wish. It's by no means research, but just some commentary on my
experience bicycling just south of the Sahara. (Incidentally, I have
recently been hit by my ninth motor vehicle when on my bike here in the
US, and I never had a moment's concern during two years' biking in
Nigeria nor during twenty years biking in Britain, New Zealand, and
Europe.  That might be a topic in cultural anthropology.)

Dave Wilson
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Adonia Lugo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear all,
First, an introduction: I am a graduate student in cultural
anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and I've been
developing an ethnographic project on bicycling, inequality, and urban
space in Los Angeles. My project centers on the question of why people
in LA bike (economic necessity, subcultural performance, political
reasons, etc.), and how urban planners and advocates are working to
shift our automobilized landscape toward one more welcoming to novice
cyclists. My formal fieldwork, in which I will play bicycling
ethnographer in the spirit of psychogeographic flânerie, will start this
fall, but I've been involved in bike activism and bike culture in LA for
the past several years, and I live at the LA Eco-Village, an intentional
community whose members started the first bike advocacy nonprofit and
the first bike repair cooperative in LA. The work of you Cycling &
Society folks has been inspiring and instructive, especially as we in
the U.S. are a little, ahem, behind in doing qualitative research
on/with bikes.
Now, a question: can anyone point me in the direction of qualitative
research done/ being done on the cycling experience in China, South
Asia, or bicycle-heavy regions in Africa? The only references I've found
in my cursory search of anthropological literature have been in passing,
as bicycling forms a significant transport mode in various field sites,
but I'm interested in work that focuses on the practice of bicycling.
Thanks for your work!
Adonia Lugo


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Adonia E. Lugo
Graduate Student in Anthropology
University of California, Irvine




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