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Cycling and Sustainability
Explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. This title examines the cultural development of cycling in countries with high use and the differences in use between different sub-groups of the population.
Studies in Trans-disciplinary Method
This groundbreaking and innovative text demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.
White Vanishing
The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offer...
American Paradiplomacy and Chinese Power
This book investigates contemporary US-China subnational relations and considers the extent to which subnational, national and international power contests inform American states’ strategies of internationalization. Approaching the subject from a constructivist perspective, the book contributes to debates about the relevance of subnational diplomacy to US politics, diplomacy and security. It evaluates the efficacy of Chinese power through influence and interference in co-opting American subnational elites, (re)framing their and the wider public’s social knowledge about China, and (re)shaping the interests, norms and practices guiding relations with China. The book also identifies the limits of Chinese power by exploring how a shift in dominant narratives produces new understandings of opportunities and risks associated with China. Featuring new empirical evidence and a novel theoretical framework, this book will be a valuable resource for students of American politics and foreign relations, paradiplomacy, federal studies, China studies and international relations.
Planning After Petroleum
The past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable cities to address the challenges of moving beyond oil? How might a shift away from petroleum provide opportunities to improve or remake cities for the economic, social and...
‘Balkanization’ and the Euro-Atlantic Processes of the (Western) Balkans
This book explores how ‘balkanization’ as a discourse underpins the policies of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Western Balkans. It shows how EU and NATO policies have emerged from, and led to, the constant reinvention of the unity of the West through ‘balkanizing’ the region and illustrates how this dynamic is maintained by and instrumentalized for the political elites. Through a genealogical analysis that stretches from the Balkans Wars to more recent events such as North Macedonia’s change of name in 2018, the author shows how Western policies have aimed at recreating the united West on the back of the ‘broken’ Balkans. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Southeast Europe, International Relations, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies and History.
The Street Is Ours
A compelling history of the impact of automobiles on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Becoming Urban Cyclists
In the 21st century cycling has been re-considered as utilitarian transport. Starting from a low modal share, it has surged in many major cities of the Global North and is now being integrated into mobility and urban planning programmes and infrastructure. This book focuses on the process of "becoming" an urban cyclist through socialization.
Invisible Bicycle
The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the 1950s and 1960s and the renaissance beginning in the 1970s by bringing forth the large national and local variations, varying uses and images of the bicycle, and different bicycle cultures as well as their historical background and motivations. To understand the role, possibilities and challenges of the bicycle today, it is necessary to know the history that has formed them. Therefore The Invisible Bicycle is recommended also to present-day practitioners and planners of bicycle mobility. Contributors are: Peter Cox, Martin Emanuel, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus, Nicholas Oddy, Harry Oosterhuis, William Steele, Manuel Stoffers, Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai, Frank Veraart.
