Intersections

Technology, Mobility, and Geography

Bibliographic Data

ID4022530
AuthorsPeter Soppelsa (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume52
Issue4
Pages673-677
Publication date2011-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2011.0139
OpenAlexW2026919495
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

The essay introduces this issue of Technology and Culture, which highlights the intersections of technology, mobility, and geography. While recent scholarship on mobilities foregrounds mobile objects, people, and ideas, this issue's articles link mobility to geography, illustrating the spaces that shape or are created by changing sociotechnical practices of movement. Here, the where of technology's social construction matters as much as its who. The articles approach geography on different scales-from national territory to urban, suburban, and rural spaces. Geoff Zylstra, Greet De Block, Els De Vos, and Hilde Heynen show how streetcars, railways, and automobiles influenced the social production of space, while Tiina MŠnnistš-Funk shows how geography shaped the production of bicycles. Connecting technologically enhanced mobility with modernity, race, gender, and national and regional identity, these articles show how the coproduction of technology and geography affects power and inequality, helping produce peripheral, segregated, and otherwise unequal spaces

Critical geography · Cultural geography · Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Mobilities · Modernity · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Public Spaces through Art

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