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The Embodied Dimensions Of Road Cycling And The Formation Of Gendered Cycling Identities, Lance Robert Barrie
The Embodied Dimensions Of Road Cycling And The Formation Of Gendered Cycling Identities, Lance Robert Barrie
University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+
This thesis aims to offer a better understanding as to why road cycling remains one of Australia’s most popular leisure activities, despite a reported 38 road cyclists killed annually and another 12,000 seriously injured (AIHW, 2019). By investigating cycling sensations of the body and cycling, this thesis responds to calls from feminist geographical scholarship to embraced embodied approaches. Building on feminist readings of the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), this thesis offers the concepts of the ‘cycling assemblage’ and ‘cycling refrain’ to help rethink the relationship between mobility, subjectivities and place. Two important implications arise. First, attention is drawn …