In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman draws 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. He examines 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.
1. Introduction: Mobility, Space and Culture Part 1: Mobility, Space and Place 2. Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Understandings of Movement-Space 3. Mobility, Place, Placelessness Part 2: Driving, Culture and Embodiment. Introduction to Part 2 4. Driving Sensations and Embodied Practices 5. Gendered Driving Bodies 6. Governing Driving Subjects Part 3: Conclusion 7. Spatialising Mobile Cultures