Trains, Culture, and Mobility

Riding the Rails

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Railroads, History, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Demography
Cover of the book Trains, Culture, and Mobility by Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall, Lexington Books
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Author: Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall ISBN: 9780739167502
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 29, 2011
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall
ISBN: 9780739167502
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 29, 2011
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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.”

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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.”

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