Radical mobilities

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

As mobility becomes a key concept within geography it needs to be considered what a radical approach to mobility means. Reviewing literature on mobilities from within transport, policy mobilities and migration studies, this article discusses three interpretations of radical mobility: scale or speed of changes required in mobility, critical approaches tracing mobilities and relations of power and approaches that question the ontology of mobility. Drawing on material and radical black feminist thought, I instead suggest a rhizomatic understanding of mobility as material-semiotic transformation of energy. This ontology shifts understandings of what just and sustainable mobilities can be.

Related collections

Most cited references 136

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Book: not found

Constructions of Neoliberal Reason

Jamie Peck (2010)

0 comments Cited 342 times – based on 0 reviews

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport.

James Woodcock, Phil Edwards, Cathryn Tonne … (2009)

We used Comparative Risk Assessment methods to estimate the health effects of alternative urban land transport scenarios for two settings-London, UK, and Delhi, India. For each setting, we compared a business-as-usual 2030 projection (without policies for reduction of greenhouse gases) with alternative scenarios-lower-carbon-emission motor vehicles, increased active travel, and a combination of the two. We developed separate models that linked transport scenarios with physical activity, air pollution, and risk of road traffic injury. In both cities, we noted that reduction in carbon dioxide emissions through an increase in active travel and less use of motor vehicles had larger health benefits per million population (7332 disability-adjusted life-years [DALYs] in London, and 12 516 in Delhi in 1 year) than from the increased use of lower-emission motor vehicles (160 DALYs in London, and 1696 in Delhi). However, combination of active travel and lower-emission motor vehicles would give the largest benefits (7439 DALYs in London, 12 995 in Delhi), notably from a reduction in the number of years of life lost from ischaemic heart disease (10-19% in London, 11-25% in Delhi). Although uncertainties remain, climate change mitigation in transport should benefit public health substantially. Policies to increase the acceptability, appeal, and safety of active urban travel, and discourage travel in private motor vehicles would provide larger health benefits than would policies that focus solely on lower-emission motor vehicles.

0 comments Cited 311 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

The sustainable mobility paradigm

David Banister (2008)

0 comments Cited 301 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

All references

Author and article information

Journal

Title: Progress in Human Geography

Abbreviated Title: Progress in Human Geography

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN (Print): 0309-1325

ISSN (Electronic): 1477-0288

Publication date (Electronic): January 10 2020

Page: 030913251989947

Affiliations

[1 ]University of Huddersfield, UK

Article

DOI: 10.1177/0309132519899472

SO-VID: d0cb6df8-2d6e-424c-88df-47aa035bb19d

License:

http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Smart Citations

Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting

View Citations

See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.