Mobility, Space and Culture (International Library of Sociology)

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Merriman, Peter

Social Sciences

Routledge

Space (Key Ideas in Geography)

"Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography. It examines the influence of geometry, arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism and positivism to the development of spatial thinking, as well as contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists, Marxists and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure, and perform spaces and practices of spacing. It will be of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences"--

Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography. 
The text examines the influence of geometry, arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism, and positivism to the development of spatial thinking, as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists, Marxists, and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure, and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects, highlighting the contributions of feminists, queer theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances, this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. 
Space is possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography, as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s.     A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway  An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography  Contains 38 high quality illustrations  Based on extensive, original archive work

History

Europe

Wiley/Blackwell

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. 
<ul> <li>A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway 
</li> <li>An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography 
</li> <li>Contains 38 high quality illustrations 
</li> <li>Based on extensive, original archive work</li> </ul>

Geographies Of Mobilities

Cresswell, Tim

Ashgate

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Mobility, Space and Culture (International Library of Sociology)

Space (Key Ideas in Geography)

Space (Key Ideas in Geography)

Mobility, Space and Culture (International Library of Sociology)

Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Geographies Of Mobilities