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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Violent mobilities : men, masculinities and road conflicts in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Routledge. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 13:5, s. 717-732
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on violence(s) in traffic space as a gendered problem. It draws upon qualitative online studies and interviews with cyclists about their experiences of motorists’ violent practices, including cyclists’ negotiations of anti-cyclist discourses and their coping strategies. It is argued that automobility makes it possible for certain men to perform their ‘right to the road,’ including gender-identity-shaping practices, and that this has the negative effect of violating cyclists’ bodily integrity. It follows that a shift from cars to more sustainable mobilities also demands related shifts in masculinities and men’s practices in the context of transport and traffic.
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- Bergström Casinowsky, Gunilla, 1965
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Consequences of overnight work travel for personal social relations: problems, promises and further repercussions.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-011X .- 1745-0101. ; 5:3, s. 369-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article uses survey data from Sweden to examine social consequences of the mobile society. Key questions tackled include the implications of ovrnight work travel for the travellers' ability to cultivate locally based and long-distance friendship and the potential of travel to provide a source of new acquaintances. Data analysis indicates that widening social networks and increasing opportunities to achieve co-presence with long-distance friends, as brought by mobility, represent significant consequences of overnight work travel from an individual's standpoint. This experience was salient even among those responents who travelled no more than occasionally, while only the most frequent travellers perceived their travel as something impeding with their chances of sustaining local social ties. While the benefits deriving from travle thus seem incontestable, it may therefor not be possible either to entirely discard the prevalent notion of mobile lifestyles as a factor undermining social cohesion and promoting isolation and loneliness.
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- Brodersen, Meike, 1986-, et al.
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Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities
- 2024
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 19:1, s. 87-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we interrogate the utility of conceptualising the ‘first and last mile’ (FLM) as a ‘challenge’ to be addressed through automated and integrated mobility services. We critically engage with the concept through a design anthropological approach which takes two steps so as: to complicate literatures that construct the FLM as a place where automated, service-based and micro-mobility innovations will engender sustainable modal choices above individual automobility; and to demonstrate how people’s situated mobility competencies and values, shape social and material realities and future imaginaries of everyday mobilities. To do so, we draw on ethnographic research into everyday mobility practices, meanings and imaginaries in a suburban neighbourhood in Sweden. We show how locally situated mobilities both challenge the spatial and temporal underpinnings of the first and last mile concept, and resist universalist technology-driven automation narratives. We argue that instead of attempting to bridge gaps in seemingly linear journeys through automated systems, there is a need to account for the practices, tensions and desires embedded in everyday mobilities. © 2023 The Author(s).
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- Cohen, Scott A, et al.
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Lifestyle Mobilities : The Crossroads of Travel, Leisure and Migration
- 2015
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 10:1, s. 155-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides between work and leisure, and a destabilisation of concepts of ‘home’ and ‘away’. We unpack issues of identity construction, belonging and place attachment associated with sustained corporeal mobility, and conclude by suggesting avenues for the further study of lifestyle mobilities.
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- Das Neves, Bonnie, et al.
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'Being treated like an actual person' : attitudinal accessibility on the bus
- 2023
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 18, s. 425-444
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whilst the essential nature of built environment accessibility has been well established in transport research, attitudinal, behavioural, and communication barriers experienced by transport users remain largely overlooked. Subtle and insidious, repetitive negative attitudes, behaviour, and communication can force disabled passengers out of the most affordable transport option available. Applying the Disability Justice Framework and a Mobility Justice approach, this study investigated disabled passengers' reported experience of bus driver attitudes, behaviours, and communication methods, and the impact of these encounters. A mixed methods cross-sectional survey and focus groups with disabled adults and support persons were conducted. An Advisory Working Group of transport accessibility advocates, all with lived experience, were engaged to oversee the study design. Participants reported that some bus drivers demonstrated ableist attitudes, discriminatory behaviour, and communication methods. Many passengers had reduced or stopped catching buses altogether due to these negative encounters, restricting their community mobility, which further impacted their quality of life. Participants' recommendations for drivers, operators, and transport authorities were thematically integrated into one statement, reinforcing the power of attitudinal access-'treat me like the person I am, who is valid; with a right to time, space and safety; listen to me, and prove you care'.
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- Doody, Brendan J., et al.
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Entering, enduring and exiting : the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits
- 2022
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 17:4, s. 484-500
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Car sharing could support a transition away from private vehicle ownership and use. Attempts to understand participation in car sharing have primarily focused on minor and major disruptions which catalyse change in practices. This paper examines how processes of entering, continuing or exiting car sharing systems unfold in Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Car sharing is conceptualised as an arrangement of elements assembled, adjusted and supported by events, practices and habits. Drawing on biographically-oriented household interviews, we build on and extend existing understandings of change and stability in car sharing in four ways. First, by focusing on households rather than individual users, the paper complements recent attempts to understand the decoupling of family and private-car-based mobility. Second, under-examined processes of exiting, alongside entry and continuation are considered. Third, it highlights the importance of recognising more imperceptible, gradual and continuous changes which might not necessarily coincide with a disruptive event. Fourth, habits of shared car arrangements are demonstrated to be fragile and not as deeply ingrained as those associated with ownership. Existing household practices and habits thus raise further questions about the potential for shared mobility services to disrupt the primacy of the car.
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- Edberg, Karin
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E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility
- 2023
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last few years, electrically assisted cycling, e-biking, has increased substantially worldwide. Replacing car driving for individual journeys, especially commuting, is highlighted as important to mitigate climate change, improve public health, and reduce congestion and other unwanted consequences connected to the car. Car driving, how-ever, is still the overwhelmingly dominant mode of personal transport globally and the ‘system of automobility’ permeates the whole of soci-ety. Flexibility and autonomy are considered the main reasons for the car’s dominance (Urry 2004). By analysing interviews and diaries kept by e-bikers, collected in semi-urban and urban settings in Sweden, this art-icle aims to contribute to knowledge about emerging micromobility practices such as e-biking in relation to a transport system where flexi-bility is the norm. The results show that e-biking encompasses elements that give the practice potential to both recruit and retain practitioners. By successfully combining elements of conventional cycling and car driving, it offers reliability, convenience, and flexibility. E-biking facili-tates transforming a dull commute into leisure as the rider can enjoy the sensuous and reflective aspects of the journey. At the same time, through that squeezing of time, it does not challenge prevailing struc-tures but rather maintains the time-space of automobility
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- Eimermann, Marco, 1979-
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Flying dutchmen? : return reasoning among dutch lifestyle migrants in rural Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; 12:1, s. 116-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to examine return reasoning among Dutch lifestyle migrant families in Hällefors, rural Sweden. It addresses two questions: after migrating to Hällefors, what influences return reasoning among Dutch families? What does this imply for return migration and transnationalism within lifestyle migration research? The questions are addressed through analysis of Dutch migrant families’ narratives, collected in 2011 and subsequent years. The findings are related to issues of transnationalism and return migration within lifestyle migration research. As many of these intra-EU urban–rural migrants are seriously considering returning, this study draws attention to temporary lifestyle migration over longer periods.
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- Emanuel, Martin, 1977-
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Leisure walking in the original compact city : senses, distinction, and rhythms of the bourgeois promenade
- 2023
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Ingår i: Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-0101 .- 1745-011X. ; , s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ‘compact city’ implies a return to the urban morphology of the nineteenth-century city, one in which most people walked, predominantly for utilitarian purposes. This article, however, details a leisure practice—the bourgeois promenade—as it unfolded in Stockholm. Employing a diverse set of texts and visual sources the article seeks to understand how this genteel urban practice was enabled and performed in the midst of a growing working-class population with which they shared the streets. It suggests that new street lighting and smoother pavements redirected vision from the ground to the people around, opening up for walking practices that foregrounded the visual over other senses—one being the bourgeois promenade. It further highlights the multiple rhythms of the promenade and the upper middle class’ efforts to create hierarchies of walking on city pavements and in urban parks. In sum, the article shows that leisure mobility was central to the very idea of nineteenth century urban life. Meanwhile, its exclusive character cautions against the one-sided imaginaries of strolling and consumption in today’s endeavours to recreate the compact city.
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