ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Henri Lefebvre ideas elucidate the production of nature, using qualitative data on cycling from cities across Canada to explore nature’s enactment in the city, and reviews Lefebvre car critique and situate mobilities literature within the production of nature discussion. The chapter demonstrates how Lefebvre broader production of space ideas, more than his observations on nature, offer an effective conceptual toolkit for expanding the production of nature as a site of Lefebvrian ecological analysis. Hegemonic automobility and driving nature comprise a great interference, an immense wave with vast sociotechnical momentum. The chapter shows how spatial practices, representational space, representations of space and Lefebvre historical approach to the production of urban space can be applied in combination to illuminate the production of nature, using cycling across urban Canada as a case study.
