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Researching cycling inequalities: moving towards more sustainable cycling societies

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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:50 authored by Katerina Psarikidou
There has been a growing interest in the practice of cycling as a central element in the configuration of a society that can be more sustainable in terms of its mobility systems. This paper suggests that in order to move towards the development of more sustainable cycling societies, we need to pay more attention to relations of inequalities that might be embedded within existing cycling practices. More specifically, drawing on Mobilities research conducted in the car-centric city of Birmingham, it aims to unpack the wider set of inequalities – for example, gender, class, ethnic, employment, economic, to name a few – that can be enacted through the practice of cycling as well as the multiple spaces of exclusion that can be produced or reinforced in relation to such inequalities. It thus suggests that understanding the inherent immobilities that might be embedded even in the most unexpected systems of mobilities, such as cycling, is pivotal for not only locating cycling in the centre of developing more sustainable societies, but also realising the centrality of the usually ignored ‘social’ in the pursuit of sustainable mobilities.

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  • Published

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Publisher

Routledge

Page range

103-118

Pages

296.0

Book title

Cycling societies: innovations, inequalities and governance

Place of publication

Oxon and New York

ISBN

9780367336615

Series

Routledge studies in transport, environment and development

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Cosmin Popan, Katerina Psarikidou, Dennis Zuev

Legacy Posted Date

2022-03-08

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