(Im)mobilising citizens: Governing individual transport under COVID-19 and climate change in Sweden

Portinson Hylander, JensStatens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut,Mobilitet, aktörer och planering, MAP,The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden; K2 – Sweden’s National Center for Research and Education on Public Transport, Lund, Sweden (author)

(Im)mobilising citizens : Governing individual transport under COVID-19 and climate change in Sweden

Research funding also provided by K2 – Sweden's National Centre for Research and Education on Public Transport, grant no. 2015031.
One striking effect from policy responses by governments to address the COVID-19 pandemic was the repression of mobility, resulting in altered volumes and patterns of passenger transport on a global scale. Building on governance and governmentality theories we provide a comparative analysis of the management of COVID-19 and climate change by the Swedish state in relation to individual mobility and transport. We find that the governance approach in the two cases differ significantly, with a unified state response to COVID-19 being based on a perception of acute crisis combined with solidarity appeals to citizens. In contrast, climate change is marked by a distributed network governance, a conceptualisation of future crisis, and individuals being invoked primarily as economic agents. We discuss whether a stronger leadership by the state combined with appeals to civic solidarity may open new policy avenues for sustainable mobility.

Thoresson, Karin,1980-Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut,Mobilitet, aktörer och planering, MAP,The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden; K2 – Sweden’s National Center for Research and Education on Public Transport, Lund, Sweden(Swepub:vti)karin.thoresson@vti.se (author)
Hedegaard Sørensen, Claus,1964-Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut,Mobilitet, aktörer och planering, MAP,The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden; K2 – Sweden’s National Center for Research and Education on Public Transport, Lund, Sweden(Swepub:vti)claus.h.sorensen@vti.se (author)
Alm, Jens,1982-Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut,Mobilitet, aktörer och planering, MAP,The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden; K2 – Sweden’s National Center for Research and Education on Public Transport, Lund, Sweden(Swepub:vti)jens.alm@vti.se (author)
Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitutMobilitet, aktörer och planering, MAP (creator_code:org_t)

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