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Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable
and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of
physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas,
and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and
opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. The
future of new collaborative forms of consumption and sharing would
play a key role in the organization of everyday life and business.
Sharing mobilities is more than simply sharing transport, and its
diverse impacts on society and the environment demand thorough
theory-led sociological research. With an extensive global range,
the contributors present radical manifestations of sharing
capacities throughout diverse countries, including Germany,
Denmark, Japan, and Vietnam. The phenomenon of mobility is highly
actual and social as well as politically relevant and urging. This
collection focuses on open questions from the perspective of the
mobilities turn while presenting state-of-the-art theory-based
articles with applied perspectives. An ideal read for scholars
based in social science and the interdisciplinary research on
mobility, transports, and sharing economy. Sociologists,
geographers, economists, urban governance researchers, and research
students would also find this book of interest.
This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to
critically analyse and challenge dominant framings and prevalent
conventions of 'good cycling'. Cycling Societies brings to light
the plurality of voices and forms of cycling in other societies,
revealing the diversity and complexity of cycling across different
socio-political regimes, geographies and cultures. It presents case
studies from five continents and demonstrates the need of thinking
comparatively about cycling and urban environments. The book pivots
around the three themes of innovations, inequalities and governance
and engages a diversity of voices: world-renowned academics in the
field of cycling and urban mobility, cycling activists and
transportation consultants. Synthesising academic contributions
with policy briefs, this innovative book will be of great interest
to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainable
transportation, urban planning and mobility studies.
This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to
critically analyse and challenge dominant framings and prevalent
conventions of 'good cycling'. Cycling Societies brings to light
the plurality of voices and forms of cycling in other societies,
revealing the diversity and complexity of cycling across different
socio-political regimes, geographies and cultures. It presents case
studies from five continents and demonstrates the need of thinking
comparatively about cycling and urban environments. The book pivots
around the three themes of innovations, inequalities and governance
and engages a diversity of voices: world-renowned academics in the
field of cycling and urban mobility, cycling activists and
transportation consultants. Synthesising academic contributions
with policy briefs, this innovative book will be of great interest
to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainable
transportation, urban planning and mobility studies.
Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable
and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of
physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas,
and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and
opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. The
future of new collaborative forms of consumption and sharing would
play a key role in the organization of everyday life and business.
Sharing mobilities is more than simply sharing transport, and its
diverse impacts on society and the environment demand thorough
theory-led sociological research. With an extensive global range,
the contributors present radical manifestations of sharing
capacities throughout diverse countries, including Germany,
Denmark, Japan, and Vietnam. The phenomenon of mobility is highly
actual and social as well as politically relevant and urging. This
collection focuses on open questions from the perspective of the
mobilities turn while presenting state-of-the-art theory-based
articles with applied perspectives. An ideal read for scholars
based in social science and the interdisciplinary research on
mobility, transports, and sharing economy. Sociologists,
geographers, economists, urban governance researchers, and research
students would also find this book of interest.
This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined
general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the
means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions
serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the
first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual") focuses
on the meanings of the visual sphere, and the second ("New
Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual")
explores various sociological research methods to getting a better
understanding of the visual sphere. We approach the visual sphere
sociologically because we regard it as one of the layers of the
social world. It is where humans produce, use, and engage with the
visual in their creation and interpretation of meanings. Under the
two large inquiries into the "what" and the "how" of the sociology
of the visual sphere, a subset of more focused questions is being
posed: what social processes and hierarchies make up the visual
sphere? How various domains of visual politics and visuality are
being related (or being presented as such)? What are the relations
between sites and sights in the visual research? What techniques
help visual researcher to increase sensorial awareness of the
research site? How do imaginaries of competing political agents
interact in different global contexts and create unique,
locally-specific visual spheres? What constitutes competing
interpretations of visual signs? The dwelling on these questions
brings here eleven scholars from eight countries to share their
research experience from variety of contexts and sites, utilizing a
range of sociological theories, from semiotics to
post-structuralism.
This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently
the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of
motorization - the electric two-wheeler (e-bike). The book provides
sociological insights into e-bike mobility in China and discusses
politics, social practices and larger issues of mobility transition
in urban China. Taking an accessible approach to the subject, the
book identifies the main sociospatial conflicts regarding the use
of e-bikes and discusses why electric two-wheeler mobility is
important for the future of urban China and urban transportation
globally. This book will be an invaluable read for urban
geographers and transportation researchers, but also for academics
and general readers interested in Chinese Studies, specifically in
the area of urban mobility in China.
This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently
the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of
motorization - the electric two-wheeler (e-bike). The book provides
sociological insights into e-bike mobility in China and discusses
politics, social practices and larger issues of mobility transition
in urban China. Taking an accessible approach to the subject, the
book identifies the main sociospatial conflicts regarding the use
of e-bikes and discusses why electric two-wheeler mobility is
important for the future of urban China and urban transportation
globally. This book will be an invaluable read for urban
geographers and transportation researchers, but also for academics
and general readers interested in Chinese Studies, specifically in
the area of urban mobility in China.
Grounded in socio-visual thinking, this book addresses the emerging
shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or
through images toward a sociology with images. In doing
so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a
surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology beyond
the framework of drone-related research. With contributions from
astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual
culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more,
this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed
socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see
and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and
environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic
practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content.
This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of
visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual
material, and reflections on how such material can be studied
sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples
that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we
live in, exploring three domains of the 'relational image': the
urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle
issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of
visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of
the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by
researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their
visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of
visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and
researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their
own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related
courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.
This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined
general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the
means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions
serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the
first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual") focuses
on the meanings of the visual sphere, and the second ("New
Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual")
explores various sociological research methods to getting a better
understanding of the visual sphere. We approach the visual sphere
sociologically because we regard it as one of the layers of the
social world. It is where humans produce, use, and engage with the
visual in their creation and interpretation of meanings. Under the
two large inquiries into the "what" and the "how" of the sociology
of the visual sphere, a subset of more focused questions is being
posed: what social processes and hierarchies make up the visual
sphere? How various domains of visual politics and visuality are
being related (or being presented as such)? What are the relations
between sites and sights in the visual research? What techniques
help visual researcher to increase sensorial awareness of the
research site? How do imaginaries of competing political agents
interact in different global contexts and create unique,
locally-specific visual spheres? What constitutes competing
interpretations of visual signs? The dwelling on these questions
brings here eleven scholars from eight countries to share their
research experience from variety of contexts and sites, utilizing a
range of sociological theories, from semiotics to
post-structuralism.
This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of
visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual
material, and reflections on how such material can be studied
sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples
that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we
live in, exploring three domains of the 'relational image': the
urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle
issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of
visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of
the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by
researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their
visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of
visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and
researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their
own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related
courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.
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