For anyone interested in the prospects of mobility transitions as we come out of the coronavirus pandemic, this book offers crucial approaches to understanding the complex interplay of movement, meaning, and practice, within constellations of power and policy at many different scales. It spans a remarkably wide array of regions and case studies, and will be an indispensable guide to making future mobile worlds possible.

Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University

To respond to the climate emergency we have to fundamentally rethink how we move around. <i>Moving Towards Transition</i> helps us to do exactly that. For policy makers, students and researchers alike, this book introduces and interrogates the critical challenge of our age – how we rebuild our mobility systems in ways that are zero-carbon and socially-just. This important book offers us a route to common mobility beyond our individual neoliberal world.

Paul Chatterton. Professor of Urban Futures. School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

This exciting book offers a much-needed approach to understanding transitions in everyday mobility, grounded in mobilities thinking and informed by numerous case-studies worldwide. Rather than offering a generic framework, it examines mobility transitions on their own terms in a manner that is at once social, political and geographical, and highlights the importance of power and justice. A must-read for every student, researcher and policymaker wondering how transport can move beyond its carbon dependence.

Tim Schwanen, Professor of Transport Studies and Geography, University of Oxford

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there.
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List of Figures
Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – Approaches to Transition
Chapter Three – A Mobilities Approach to Mobility Transitions
Chapter Four – Mechanisms, Agents, and Structures
Chapter Five - Policy Assemblages: Multiplicity, Temporality, and Actors in the time
of ‘Crisis’
Chapter Six – Liberal Logics & Lifestyle
Chapter Seven – Commoning Mobility Transitions
Chapter Eight – Conclusions: Towards Just Mobility Transitions
Bibliography

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An examination of the need for a transition from our current carbon-intensive forms of mobility (dominated by automobility) to a low or non-carbon mobility society.
Presents an alternative, progressive approach to and conceptualization of mobility transition.
The Just Sustainabilities series contributes to understanding, theorizing and ultimately developing strategies toward the development of more just and sustainable communities in both the global North and South. Through a collection of solutions-orientated books the series looks at policy and planning themes that improve people’s quality of life and well-being, both now and into the future; that are carried out with an intentional focus on just and equitable processes, outputs and outcomes in terms of people’s access to environmental, social, political and economic space(s); and that aim to achieve a high quality of life and well-being within environmental limits.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786998972
Publisert
2023-05-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Biographical note

Peter Adey is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He has written widely on cultures of the air, security and the futures of mobility.

Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Jane Yeonjae Lee is a research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, Singapore.

Anna Nikolaeva is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

André Nóvoa is a geographer previously trained as a historian and anthropologist. He has been conducting research within the mobility studies field.

Cristina Temenos is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute, UK.