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Cycling through Dark Space: Apprehending Landscape Otherwise

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  • Matthew Cook
  • Tim Edensor

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By investigating the experience of night-cycling, this paper redresses the overwhelming focus in mobility studies on the apprehension of landscape by daylight. Drawing on Matt’s cycling diary of his regular night rides through rural Bedfordshire, we explore the distinctive ways in which dark landscape is experienced. We discuss various effects: the shaping of perception by the beam of the head torch; an ongoing attunement to differing levels of light and dark; the affordances of the cycle and other equipment; enhanced awareness of the vital rhythms of landscape; and imaginaries stimulated by passage through darkness. We, thereby, aim to contribute to revaluing darkness.

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  • Matthew Cook & Tim Edensor, 2017. "Cycling through Dark Space: Apprehending Landscape Otherwise," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:12:y:2017:i:1:p:1-19
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.956417
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    1. Ingrid Boas & Joris Schapendonk & Suzy Blondin & Annemiek Pas, 2020. "Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(4), pages 163-146.
    2. Derrien, Monika M. & Stokowski, Patricia A., 2020. "Discursive constructions of night sky experiences: Imagination and imaginaries in national park visitor narratives," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    3. Andrews, Gavin J. & Duff, Cameron, 2019. "Matter beginning to matter: On posthumanist understandings of the vital emergence of health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 226(C), pages 123-134.
    4. Patrick Moore & Marco Helbich, 2020. "Cycling through the Landscape of Advertising in Amsterdam: A Commuters Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-14, July.
    5. Paul M. Torrens, 2024. "Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography," Geographies, MDPI, vol. 4(2), pages 1-34, April.

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