Geographies of Rhythm : Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre Put Forward His Ideas On The Relationship Between Time And Space, Particularly How Rhythms Characterize Space. Here, Leading Geographers Advance And Expand On Lefebvre's Theories, Examining How They Intersect With Current Theoretical And Political Concerns Within The Social Sciences. In Terms Of Geography, Rhythmanalysis Highlights Tensions Between Repetition And Innovation, Between The Need For Consistency And The Need For Disruption. These Tensions Reveal The Ways In Which Social Time Is Managed To Ensure A Measure Of Stability Through The Instantiation Of Temporal Norms, Whilst At The Same Time Showing How This Is Often Challenged. In Looking At The Rhythms Of Geographies, And Drawing Upon A Wide Range Of Geographical Contexts, This Book Explores The Ordering Of Different Rhythms According To Four Main Themes: Rhythms Of Nature, Rhythms Of Everyday Life, Rhythms Of Mobility, And The Official And Routine Rhythms Which Superimpose Themselves On The Multiple Rhythms Of The Body.--book Jacket. Introduction : Thinking About Rhythm And Space / Tim Edensor -- Consuming Urban Rhythms : Let's Ravalejar / Monica Degen -- Life Hacking And Everyday Rhythm / Tracey Potts -- The Aesthetics Of Place-temporality In Everyday Urban Space : The Case Of Fitzroy Square / Filipa Matos Wunderlich -- Urban Outreach And The Polyrhythmic City / Tom Hall -- Fascinatin' Rhythm(s) : Polyrhythmia And The Syncopated Echoes Of The Everyday / Deirdre Conlon -- 'i'm In A Park And I'm Practically Dead' : Insomnia, Arrhythmia And Withnail And I / Craig Meadows -- 'he Who Thinks, In Modern Traffic, Is Lost' : Automation And The Pedestrian Rhythms Of Interwar London / Richard Hornsey -- Improvising Rhythms : Re-reading Urban Time And Space Through Everyday Practices Of Cycling / Justin Spinney -- Repetition And Difference : Rhythms And Mobile Place-making In Santiago De Chile / Paola Jiron -- 'the Engine Sang An Even Song' : Rhythm And Mobilities Among Early Women Aviators / Dydia Delyser -- Rumba And Rhythmic 'natures' In Cuba / Shannon Hensley -- Equine Beats : Unique Rhythms (and Floating Harmony) Of Horses And Riders / Rhys Evans And Alexandra Franklin -- 'the Breath Of The Moon' : The Rhythmic And Affective Time-spaces Of Uk Tides / Owain Jones -- Re-thinking Catastrophe In The Time Of Climate Change / James Evans. Edited By Tim Edensor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 1 Introduction: Thinking about Rhythm and Space......Page 14 Part I Power and the Rhythms of Place......Page 32 2 Consuming Urban Rhythms: Let’s Ravalejar......Page 34 3 Life Hacking and Everyday Rhythm......Page 46 4 The Aesthetics of Place-temporality in Everyday Urban Space: The Case of Fitzroy Square......Page 58 Part II Resisting Rhythms......Page 70 5 Urban Outreach and the Polyrhythmic City......Page 72 6 Fascinatin’ Rhythm(s): Polyrhythmia and the Syncopated Echoes of the Everyday......Page 84 7 ‘I’m in a Park and I’m Practically Dead’: Insomnia, Arrhythmia and Withnail and I......Page 96 Part III Mobile Rhythms......Page 110 8 ‘He Who Thinks, in Modern Traffic, is Lost......Page 112 9 Improvising Rhythms: Re-reading Urban Time and Space through Everyday Practices of Cycling......Page 126 10 Repetition and Difference: Rhythms and Mobile Place-making in Santiago de Chile......Page 142 11 ‘The Engine Sang an Even Song’: Rhythm and Mobilities among Early Women Aviators......Page 158 Part IV Dressage and Bodies......Page 170 12 Rumba and Rhythmic ‘Natures’ in Cuba......Page 172 13 Equine Beats: Unique Rhythms (and Floating Harmony) of Horses and Riders......Page 186 Part V Rhythms and Socio-Natures......Page 200 14 ‘The Breath of the Moon’: The Rhythmic and Affective Time-spaces of UK Tides......Page 202 15 Re-thinking Catastrophe in the Time of Climate Change......Page 218 Bibliography......Page 230 Index......Page 252 "Translated into English in 2004, Rhythmanalysis puts forward Henri Lefebvre's ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterise space. This book brings together leading geographers to expand and advance these theories and relationships. ... In terms of geography, rhythmanalysis emphasizes the dynamic and processual nature of space. Moreover, in thinking about the relationship of time to space, a focus on rhythm can highlight the tensions between repetition and innovation, between the need for consistency and habit, but also the importance of breaks in routine, of disruption and unpredictability. These tensions reveal the ways in which social time is managed by power to ensure a measure of stability through the instantiation of temporal norms, but also illuminate how this is always contingent and often challenged. ... In looking at the rhythms of geographies, and drawing upon a wide range of geographical contexts, this book explores the ordering of different rhythms according to four main themes: rhythms of nature, rhythms of everyday life, rhythms of mobility, and the official and routine rhythms which superimpose themselves on the multiple rhythms of the body."--Page 4 of cover