Rethinking resilience as capacity to endure

Schwanen, Tim

doi:10.1080/13604813.2015.1125718

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“…In the context of the current research, automobility norms are understood to be personal and societal expectations that give primacy to car-based travel and the transport systems that support this. As a cultural object, the car has a range of meanings and values beyond the facilitation of mobility, making automobility more resilient to external challenges to its dominance than would be explained by a purely functional perspective (Schwanen, 2016). For instance, automobility norms are often unaffected by congestion that reduces the utility of transport infrastructure, and extends travel time.…”

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The replication and reduction of automobility: Findings from Aotearoa New Zealand

Hopkins¹,

Stephenson²

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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ABSTRACT:In this paper, we examine the factors that contribute to the replication or reduction of automobility amongst young adults. Semi-structured interviews conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand, with 51 drivers and non-drivers, aged 18-35 years old, form the empirical material. The findings build upon previous research and extend understandings of how seven explanatory factors; perceptual, value and preference, social, built environment, economic, legal/ policy and technological, work both to continue the current automobility paradigm, and to challenge it by adopting alternative mobilities. We use the Energy Cultures Framework as an analytical tool to explore the ways through which material factors, norms, practices, and external context can replicate or reduce participation in the hegemonic mobility paradigm. This approach offers useful insights into the interactions between what the research participants think, have and do, and how this is resulting in a reduction in automobility norms amongst some younger people. It also identifies and highlights potential opportunities to leverage upon current change trends to assist a systemic transition away from automobility towards a culture of multi-mobilities.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The replication and reduction of automobility: Findings from Aotearoa New Zealand

Hopkins¹,

Stephenson²

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Stephenson et al (2010) In this paper, the Energy Cultures Framework is adapted to examine mobility behaviours. This framework has been adapted to mobility research previously 2016, and the concept has also been used to describe the specific material and immaterial, socially constructed aspects of mobility, which includes travel patterns, the built environment, and mobility-related discourses (Klinger et al 2013;Haustein & Nielsen, 2016). The 'mobility cultures' approach is particularly useful in foregrounding (1) the physical and the symbolic dimensions of mobility practices, (2) the structures that operate to influence behaviour, and (3) the spatial and temporal specificities of particular practices.…”

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“…Yet despite evidence of stabilisation characteristics (Geels, 2012) and resistance to change (Wells & Xenias, 2015;Schwanen, 2016), a counter narrative has emerged. Contesting the current automobility paradigm are reported variations to generation Y (1980-2000) mobilities when compared to the mobility trends of older generations (Frändberg & Vilhelmson, 2011).…”

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Destabilising automobility? The emergent mobilities of generation Y

Hopkins

2016

Ambio

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This paper uses empirical material gathered with young adults in New Zealand to examine a potential sustainability transition-in-practice. It draws from two frameworks; the actorcentred Energy Cultures Framework to explore mobility behaviours, and the multi-level perspective (MLP) to situate behaviour change within the socio-technical transitions literature. The MLP has traditionally been used to analyse historical transitions (e.g. from the horse and cart to the motor vehicle), but in this paper, it is used to explore an on-going change trend; the emergent mobilities of young adults who appear to be aspiring for different types of mobility. A series of mobility trends are described, which emerged from a programme of qualitative interviews (n=51). The material culture, norms and practices that constitute these trends are articulated. These are then considered through the lens of the MLP. The evidence points to emergent trends of multimodality that, if leveraged upon and supported, could contribute to a systemic sustainability transition.

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“…However other, more challenging, outcomes are also possible. Increased automation could, for example, promote a much more individualized and personalized mobility system where there is significantly more traffic (Wadud, Mackenzie, & Leiby, 2016) and where such innovations further cement the longevity of automobility (Schwanen, 2016). For the most positive and optimistic visions to come about would require multiple innovations to succeed and a level of collaboration and cooperation which has hitherto not been a feature of transport markets which have tended instead to produce bespoke and poorly integrated transport systems.…”

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Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition

Marsden¹

2018

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Rethinking resilience as capacity to endure

Cited by 36 publications

References 37 publications

The replication and reduction of automobility: Findings from Aotearoa New Zealand

The replication and reduction of automobility: Findings from Aotearoa New Zealand

Destabilising automobility? The emergent mobilities of generation Y

Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition

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