Citation

Knuts S, Delheye P. Dutch Crossing 2013; 37(3): 240-259.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013)

DOI

10.1179/0309656413Z.00000000041

PMID

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Abstract

Focusing on Belle Epoque Belgium, this paper analyses the changes the advent of cycling and its new mobility engendered in the sociocultural dialectics between city and countryside. By studying the inter woven, often contradictory motivations behind and representations of bicycle use, an attempt is made to determine the factors leading to cyclists' cultural imagining of both city and countryside, how this was shaped in discourse and practice and how this evolved under the influence of the bicycle's shifting social connotations after 1900. We focus especially on organized forms of Belgian cycling such as urban cycling clubs and national cycling associations.

Language: en