Conflictual politics of sustainability:

Examining Inequalities in Cycling Motility: A Pathway Towards Cycling Justice

“…Although they have focused on empirical measurements of cycling identities and practices , they may overlook how cycling is culturally and politically assembled and invested with moral values in concert with wider norms and collective practices . However, cycling has also become an object of a growing body of studies originating from the field of sociology (see (Norcliffe et al, 2022;Psarikidou et al, 2020) and, with the emergence of studies employing a critical perspective on cycling Cox & Koglin, 2020;Freudendal-Pedersen, 2020;Koglin, 2015), a critique of cycling cultures and imbalances of bicycle policies have become more common (Emanuel, 2020). Research on cycling practices indicates that the benefits associated with cycling are not always equitably distributed throughout society (Doran et al, 2021) and larger differences exist in the contexts with lower cycling rates (Aldred et al, 2016).…”

“…Overall, despite the advancement in the transport evaluation field, cycling is frequently marginalized within evaluation studies and researchers or policymakers often lack tools to establish the quality of individuals' access accurately and effectively to cycling (Aldred, 2013). A similar issue resonates in the focus of the planning and policymaking practice which seldom go beyond infrastructural aspects and discard other possible barriers to cycling such as the human related aspects (Emanuel, 2020). The ineffectiveness of policies in increasing cycling could be related to the planning and decision-making tools that inadequately deal with qualitative and subjective aspects of cycling.…”