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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Contested mobilities : politics, strategies and visions in Swedish bicycle activism
- 2017
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Ingår i: Applied mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 2:2, s. 151-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cycling is currently the focus of considerable political and public attention in many urban areas. As more and more cyclists claim space on the roads, new forms of political engagement in cycling issues beyond traditional bicycle advocacy have also emerged. Beyond focusing on cyclists’ perspectives and rights, these expressions of bicycle activism show the ways in which bicycles – as potential vehicles for sociopolitical change – are contested political and cultural symbols. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the ways in which bicycle activists and advocates in Sweden construct their politics and practices. Empirically the paper addresses three expressions of contemporary bicycling activism and advocacy: the well-established Swedish national cycling advocacy organization Cykelfrämjandet (Cycling Sweden), the ad-hoc Ghost Bike Sweden, and the online-based Bike Maffia-initiative. The empirical material of the paper consists of qualitative interviews with the leading representatives from each organization or initiative, as well as written and video materials. As arenas for cultural politics, the organizations or initiatives are diverse, exemplifying highly different views concerning conflicts in urban space, strategies for addressing these conflicts, and views of cyclists as subjects of bicycle politics. The paper addresses these issues in a specific Swedish context, also exploring the implications for understanding how political activism is shaped more generally. It is argued that bicycle activism can be viewed as a way of practising cycling citizenship, a perspective that provides a conceptual linkage between new social movement theory and activism more generally.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Cycling politics : imagining sustainable cycling futures in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Routledge. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 5:3, s. 324-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to analyse the ways in which cycling politics, established bicycle advocates and “new” forms of net-based activism in Sweden imagine and shape future cycling. The study engages with policy analysis, cultural imaginaries, cycling citizenship, power and urban planning in order to analyse expressions of contemporary cycling politics in Sweden, with aparticular focus on the national strategy for increased and safer cycling, launched in 2017. This strategy, including how advocacy responded to the strategy, and topics raised in online blogs, reflects core differences in top-down/bottom-up views on cycling as contested practice: from more pragmatic, policy- and solution-oriented approaches to making everyday cycling experiences political. The analyses address both established and alternative ways of influencing mobility transitions and seek to address the alternative imaginings for everyday cycling that their approaches and strategies suggest. This includes analysing their role in shaping or changing cycling in the future and what these cases may tell us about the sustainability of cycling itself at both local and national levels. It is argued that, while well-established organizations already enjoy aposition of access to planners and policy-makers, it remains important to find ways of including the perspectives of emergent, on-line-based initiatives and blogs, which also formulate critical perspectives on everyday cycling.
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- Cochoy, Franck, 1964, et al.
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Bicycles, cyclists and loads: a comparative analysis of cycling practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse
- 2019
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 4:1, s. 1-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on a video-based analysis of bicycling practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. It is based on actor-network theory, an approach that studies human and non-human entities and their contributions to social action equally. The paper examines bicycles and their interactions with cyclists and loads in the transport of people and goods. Accordingly, this paper presents methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of bicycle transportation as a possible method for developing sustainable urban environments. This paper also presents an innovative way to study ordinary social practices and describes how these practices shape associated societal issues.
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- Colomer, Laia, 1967-
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Feeling like at home in airports : experiences, memories and affects of placeness among Third Culture Kids
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - Abingdon-on-Thames : Taylor & Francis. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 5:2, s. 155-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When analysed as network places for the mobility of subjects and objects, many descriptions refer to airports as placeless and meaningless spaces carrying no singular identity to themselves and to their users. This imagery does not necessarily fit with those people whose experiences are intrinsically linked to mobility as a recurrent early life style and as a part of their subjective identity. Drawing on affect theory this paper portrays an alternative picture of airports as meaningful places through the narratives made by a particular community of onward/multiple migrants, adult “Third Culture Kids”, associated with the experiences and memories of transiting in airports. By doing it, this article aims to add another dimension to mobilities that regards people’s affections and experiences ascribed to places of mobility.
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- Edensor, Tim, et al.
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Rhythmanalysing the urban runner : Pildammsparken, Malmö
- 2018
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2380-0135 .- 2380-0127. ; 3:2, s. 97-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we discuss the development of urbanized running culture by exploring how the embodied rhythms of running interact with other urban rhythms in a park. The analysis focuses on the timings, sensations and materialities produced through running, and how the rhythms of running intersect with the materialities and rhythms of others. The investigation draws on interviews, observations and a running diary undertaken at Pildammsparken in central Malmö. Our research shows that while the runner, in endeavouring to align with the rhythms of others, may becoming a more disciplined figure, running in the park is more concerned with practising a sharing of space than moving on auto-pilot. Consequently, running is largely a mobile rhythmic practice that negotiates and adapts to co-produce eurhythmic choreographies in this particular urban location.
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- Marjavaara, Roger, 1972-
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Selecting a place of rest after a life on the move : determinants of post-mortal mobility in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Routledge. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 2:2, s. 166-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobility among humans is a central feature in today’s society. From the day we are born until the day we die, humans are engaged in different types of mobilities. However, most studies on human mobility focus on actions performed by individuals when they are alive, which is not at all strange. However, as proven in previous studies, people do not cease to be mobile just because they happen to die. On the contrary, death is often a trigger for mobility. The mobility of the dead, or post-mortal mobility, is a growing phenomenon in many Western countries and represents the continuation of human mobility to a place of great significance for the individual or the survivors. This study addresses the determinants of post-mortal mobility, by scrutinizing data from a nationwide questionnaire survey in Sweden. Linking theoretical developments in the field of attachment to place and issues of mortality and deathscapes, this study tries to expand the knowledge concerning individuals’ desires regarding their final act of mobility.
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- Stjernborg, Vanessa
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Experienced fear of crime and its implications for everyday mobilities in later life : an ethnographic case study of an urban Swedish neighbourhood
- 2017
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 2:2, s. 134-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims to provide an understanding of the everyday life of older people in a Swedish urban neighbourhood, with a special focus on the experienced fear of crime and how fear may affect mobilities in later life. The paper draws upon in-depth data from an ethnographic case study conducted between December 2011 and April 2013, which followed a group of older people in the neighbourhood of Seved in the city of Malmö, Sweden. The average income in the neighbourhood is one of the lowest in the city, where unemployment is high. Seved is often negatively portrayed in the media, and the residents generally feel more insecure than those in the rest of Malmö. The senior group followed, is part of a municipal project aimed at strengthening networks and enhancing feelings of social participation for older people. Through a variety of activities, the municipality seeks to achieve social sustainability through everyday life mobility and social participation. Findings highlight that news media plays a substantial role in forming perceptions of the neighbourhood. Mental maps and imagined geographies do negatively impact the everyday mobility of persons both inside and outside the area. Some older residents display both avoidance and protective behaviour, which implies that their everyday life mobility is restricted because of their fear of crime. However, social participation and knowing people in the neighbourhood seems to have a salutary effect on their fear of crime and a commendatory effect on their everyday life mobility. The results also raises questions about stereotyping (the Other) and ageism.
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- van der Meulen, Janet
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Road safety beyond the automobility norm? : Can Swedish road safety policy escape the automobility norm and facilitate cycling instead - lessons from the Netherlands
- 2023
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2380-0135 .- 2380-0127. ; 8:4, s. 321-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Road safety policy rules us in both visible and invisible ways and prioritising one mode often means downgrading another. It has been argued in previous research that road safety policy prioritises car traffic and in that way sustains the automobility norm. This paper focuses on the automobility norm that permeates Swedish road safety policy and how this hampers planning for cycling. It aims to contribute to ongoing debates about the need for a radical change in road safety policy towards the inclusion of broader societal and policy goals. The theoretical foundation for this paper is found in the mobilities approach, which acknowledges that (im)mobility and safety are subject to discursive power struggles and differentiated depending on for instance modes, groups, age, origin, and gender. The paper aims at obtaining a broader understanding of how mobility and safety are understood in Swedish road safety policy and secondly at identifying windows of opportunity for a change towards a road safety policy that facilitates and encourages cycling. These aims are achieved by a focus on the conceptualisations of problems – instead of on solutions – and a cross-cultural comparison with Dutch road safety policy. In the concluding discussion, it is argued that road safety policy should embrace more goals besides safety, that the discourse around cycling has to be disrupted and that feelings of unsafety and fear need to be acknowledged in (road safety) policy.
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