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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 PsarikidouThere 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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RoutledgeExternal DOI
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103-118Pages
296.0Book title
Cycling societies: innovations, inequalities and governancePlace of publication
Oxon and New YorkISBN
9780367336615Series
Routledge studies in transport, environment and developmentDepartment affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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Cosmin Popan, Katerina Psarikidou, Dennis ZuevLegacy Posted Date
2022-03-08Usage metrics
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