The editorial note that precedes the essay titled Battles of the Bike recalls that those who “dedicate themselves to historical and geographical study say that each border is the result of a battle. The same thing happens although not always with so much blood involved with the cities we inhabit.” The book is related to another of the works that the Iruindarra label Katakrak has recently presented: Strategies against gentrification in whose prologue the German Lisa Vollmer already confesses: “I would like this book to attract and motivate young activists and academics to invest their time and their capabilities in the fight for a city from below”; For its part The Battles of the Bike is “a good example of the debates that contemporary politics faces: the defense and management of common goods in the face of the expansive neoliberalization of space urban mobility and the right to the city …” according to its aforementioned introductory note.
In the epilogue of Strategies against gentrification Irene Sabaté highlights that “critical urban studies show that gentrification like other urban transformations that generate social injustice are not natural phenomena but are the result of specific policies actions CXB Directory and omissions. by public powers and real estate and financial interests.” Precisely in this sense The Battles of the Bike represents the reader's access to 'The road as a common good' the name of one of the introductory chapters of the book an essay that reveals among other fights the battle for the road. public that is still maintained today by the user of the old 'velocipede'.
These artifacts as well as the construction of recreational tracks and the regulation of traffic rules are some of the essential existences and questions that James Longhurst brings to the fore in this story a story that he has in A Popular History of Football to a brother in arms because this essay by the Asturian publisher Hoja de Lata dissects the body and soul of the sport of ball submerged for too long in another putrid pond: that of finances without apparent morality. Michaël Correia in A Popular History of Football composes an “exhaustive” overview in a socio-political key of the sport “with the most following around the world.” It is an “essential book in these times” and in the midst of “the darkness that clouds business football it is more necessary than ever to know in essence the background that has determined and characterized the evolution and popularization of this sport. from its modern conception in th century England to the present day” as can be read in its prologue by Carles Viñas .
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