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Towards a 'meaning'-ful analysis of the temporalities of mobility practices: implications for sustainability

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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:50 authored by Katerina Psarikidou
This chapter argues for the value of taking a more relational and situated understanding of the temporality of mobility practices. She explains that while there are dominant meanings of how temporal dichotomies relate to mobility practices, these are challenged by the multiplicity and relativity of meanings people attribute to their practices. Drawing on research conducted in Birmingham, UK, her chapter brings out how people’s experiences of mobility are made meaningful in relation to different dimensions of temporalities, as well as wider and more complex intersections of temporalities, practices and materialities. Focusing on the temporal dimensions of speed, duration and rhythmicity, it argues that since multiple temporalities are already embedded in people’s understandings of everyday mobility, these should be more carefully represented and analysed in discussions of sustainability and possible mobility transitions.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Published version

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Volume

1

Page range

99-119

Book title

Demanding energy: space, time and change

ISBN

9783319619903

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Rosie Day, Gordon Walker, Alison Hui

Legacy Posted Date

2019-12-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-12-03

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