| Trains, Culture, and Mobility: Riding the Rails Contributor(s): Fraser, Benjamin (Editor), Spalding, Steven D. (Editor), Collins, Samuel Gerald (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739167499 ISBN-13: 9780739167496 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 306.481 |
| LCCN: 2011044695 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 322 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails." |
Contributor Bio(s): Divall, Colin: - Colin Divall is Professor of Railway Studies at the University of York and is Head of the Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, a joint initiative of the UK's National Railway Museum and the University of York. He has co-authored two books, Making Histories in Transport Museums (with Andrew Scott) (2001) and Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession (with Sean F Johnston) (2000). |