TRAINS, CULTURE AND MOBILITY: RIDING THE RAILS

Fraser, Benjamin & Spalding, Steven

ISBN 10: 0739167499 / ISBN 13: 9780739167496

Published by Lexington Books, 2012

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1st 2012. Very good condition with no wrapper. Essays highlighting the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Glazed boards. 309 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight rubbing to corners. Small dent to lower edges of textblock. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRAINS, CULTURE AND MOBILITY: RIDING THE RAILS
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0739167499
• ISBN 13: 9780739167496
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.”

About the Author

Benjamin Fraseris assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of the monographs Disability Studies and Spanish Culture (Liverpool UP, forthcoming), Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience (Bucknell UP, 2011) and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain (U North Carolina P, 2010) as well as the editor and translator of Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet UP, 2009).
Steven D. Spalding is assistant professor of French at Christopher Newport University.