Sociocultural dimensions of mobility transitions to come: introduction to the special issue

Sonnberger, Marco; Graf, Antonia

doi:10.1080/15487733.2021.1927359

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“…Another question that emerges and is also topical as far as the debates around the relationship between sustainability and mobility patterns are that concerning the mutations in spatial practices and mindsets that will emerge due to the shift from traditional petroleum fuels towards electric cars. Insightful for understanding the shifts concerning the sociocultural dimensions of mobility of the reorientation towards the decarbonization of cities is the recently published issue of Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (Sonnberger & Graf, 2021). Special attention was paid, in the aforementioned issue, to the analysis of the importance of taking seriously the close connection of society, technology, movement and culture.…”

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E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape

Charitonidou

2021

Urban, Planning and Transport Research

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This article examines the role of architecture and urban planning in shaping connections between European land-based mobility, cities and landscapes. It investigates the development of spaces aiming to link automobility to the everyday experience of European citizens. The planning and funding of the E-road network is related to the promotion of trans-European mobility for commodities and individuals. This attempt to link the different European nations and to overcome their separate plans has reshaped the urban landscape and the territory. The article aims to show how urban planning and architecture play a key role in implementing new types of mobilities promoting environmental sustainability. Taking into account that the EU aims to overcome regimes of petroleum-based mobility and associated architectures, it intends to demonstrate how the land-based transportation of both individuals and commodities in the E-Road network functions as an actor of planetary urbanization. It investigates three kinds of nodes within the E-Road network -the nodes encountered on the E-Roads, those to be found at the gates to cities and the new structures aiming to imitate the urban dimension but proposing a novel articulation of pedestrian and automobile circulation -and relates them to overarching approaches in the design of mobility.

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E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape

Charitonidou

2021

Urban, Planning and Transport Research

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“…Mobility is a means of achieving and fulfilling everyday actions and needs (Mullen and Marsden 2016). Consequently, social science research is increasingly looking at mobility as a sociocultural system linked to agency (Graf and Sonnberger 2020;Sonnberger and Graf 2021).…”

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“…Using Foucault's (2004a, 2004b concept of governmentality and Judith Butler's (1995) work on identity formation, we follow the few examples of constructivist mobility research. In this paper, the digitally supported sustainable transformation of the mobility sector is consequently understood as a socio-cultural and political negotiation process, including the constitution and reproduction of identity options (Deffner;Sonnberger and Graf 2021). While technology is often in focus, potential users of smart and shared transport options are mostly left out in the political and scientific debates.…”

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Subjectification, Technology, and Rationality – Sustainable Transformation of the Mobility Sector from a Governmentality Perspective

Hansel

Graf

2023

Lecture Notes in Mobility

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Shared mobility services play an essential role in a sustainable mobility transition and unfold among so-called smart technologies. Although this can positively affect mobility, it also poses challenges for the development of sustainable urban mobility, for example, because the smart options are not equally available to all people or are inaccessible. Issues of social or ecological inequality as well as the digital exclusion of people in the mobility sector are increasingly becoming the focus of attention. Largely unexplored in this context is how the subjects of shared mobility services will be conceived, and what knowledge, skills, and resources they should bring to use smart and shared mobility services in the future. We contribute to closing this research gap by investigating the rationalities that sustainable smart and shared mobility transformation follow, which developments are triggered by the technologies, and in which ways identification offers address subjects. Foucault’s concept of governmentality is used as a theoretical perspective and nuanced with critical (feminist) literature on identity formation. Methodologically, this article works with qualitative content analysis of policy documents and an ethnographically oriented observation of registration conditions in various car-, bike-, electronic moped, and scooter-sharing services. The results show that subjects are addressed in a rather general way, and their (special) needs are hardly considered. Instead, they are addressed as flexible citizen-consumers and correspond with the rationality of (green) economic growth and the liberal paradigm. Accordingly, the technologies aim for innovation, fair competition, and the provision of public space by the state.

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“…In particular, the sociocultural aspects of this fundamental transformation have only recently started to inform research agendas. These contributions question the technocentric view of mobility transitions and fortify more holistic view including sociocultural governance dynamics (Sonnberger and Graf 2021 ; Mullen and Marsden 2016 ; Schwanen et al. 2011 ).…”

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Gerecht übersetzt? Eine sozialökologische Gerechtigeitsperspektive auf EU-Umweltgovernance und urbane Mobilitätstransformationen

Stockmann

Graf

2022

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EU environmental policies such as the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50 are highly relevant in this age of the looming climate crisis and interconnected sustainable transitions. However, implementation efforts such as low-emission zones, road pricing, and driving bans affect citizens in heterogenous situations and in ways that evoke questions of socioecological justice. This has resulted in an increasingly polarized reluctance to respective governance across Europe. The EU policy implementation literature often omits these less clearly operationalized norms that EU policies transport and pays little attention to how stakeholders in cities discursively and practically translate EU directives. Constructivist norm research underlines the importance of ‘localizing’ by highlighting that justice does matter for norm translation. The environmental justice concept has, however, not been systematically introduced and referenced in the norm research literature. This article offers a heuristic to address this research gap by combining a translation perspective from International Relations norm research with an environmental justice lens. Following the journey of the Air Quality Directive 2008/50, we ask how urban implementation configures the Directive’s environmental justice dimension and why this is important for effective and sustainable EU governance. Empirically, we focus on action plans and participation processes regarding Directive 2008/50 in Brussels, Glasgow, and Hamburg. As a result, we show that EU environmental governance unfolds at the local level as a dynamic contestation of different distributive justice claims that then translate into concrete policies. The analysis indicates that those policies must procedurally integrate local knowledge and identity formation to enable comprehensively just sustainable transformations.

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Sociocultural dimensions of mobility transitions to come: introduction to the special issue

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape

E-Road Network and Urbanization: A Reinterpretation of the Trans-European Petroleumscape

Subjectification, Technology, and Rationality – Sustainable Transformation of the Mobility Sector from a Governmentality Perspective

Gerecht übersetzt? Eine sozialökologische Gerechtigeitsperspektive auf EU-Umweltgovernance und urbane Mobilitätstransformationen

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