Driving as essential, cycling as conditional: how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of everyday mobility

IF 2.9 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI:10.1080/17450101.2024.2325370
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Car-based automobility remains dominant across Europe despite the high energy requirements such a system embeds. This system is becoming increasingly problematised. As part of an alternative vision for everyday mobility, an aspiration for vélomobility appears to be growing. In light of the persistent subordinate status of cycling across much of Europe relative to driving, attempts to lay the foundations for everyday cycling are often pursued through the implementation of redistributive cycleways and broader public space measures that prioritise active travel. These important attempts to change public space can be blocked through public opposition, which can feature as part of broader social practices that may politically sustain automobility as a dominant system. In this study, we explore how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of opposition to a major active travel scheme proposal in the context of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland. We uncover how a normatively car-centric discourse of everyday mobility constructs driving as the essential mobility practice for the functional tasks of everyday life, while cycling is relegated to recreational and conditional mobility, and briefly consider how an alternative discourse of everyday mobility that decentres the car may be advanced.

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开车是必要的,骑自行车是有条件的:日常交通话语中如何在政治上维持汽车流动性
尽管以汽车为基础的自动交通系统需要大量能源,但在整个欧洲仍占主导地位。这种系统正变得越来越成问题。作为日常交通替代愿景的一部分,人们对自行车交通的渴望似乎正在增长。鉴于在欧洲大部分地区,骑自行车相对于开车一直处于从属地位,人们往往通过实施重新分配自行车道和更广泛的公共空间措施,优先考虑积极出行,为日常骑自行车打下基础。这些改变公共空间的重要尝试可能会因为公众的反对而受阻,这可能是更广泛的社会实践的一部分,可能会在政治上维持汽车作为主导系统的地位。在本研究中,我们探讨了在爱尔兰邓莱里-拉思当(Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown)的背景下,在反对一项重要的积极出行计划提案的话语中,汽车交通是如何在政治上得以维持的。我们揭示了以汽车为中心的日常交通规范性话语是如何将驾驶构建为完成日常生活功能性任务的基本交通实践,而自行车则被降级为娱乐性和有条件的交通,并简要考虑了如何推进另一种日常交通话语,使汽车更加体面。
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Mobilities
Mobilities Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.
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