Book ID: CBB339765504

Assembling moral mobilities: Cycling, cities, and the common good (2020)

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Nicholas A. Scott (Author)


University of Nebraska Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 271
Language: English

In the years since the new mobilities paradigm burst onto the social scientific scene, scholars from various disciplines have analyzed the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of transport, contesting its long-dominant understandings as defined by engineering and economics. Still, the vast majority of mobility studies, and even key works that mention the "good life" and its dependence on the car, fail to consider mobilities in connection with moral theories of the common good. In Assembling Moral Mobilities Nicholas A. Scott presents novel ways of understanding how cycling and driving animate urban space, place, and society and investigates how cycling can learn from the ways in which driving has become invested with moral value. By jointly analyzing how driving and cycling reassembled the "good city" between 1901 and 2017, with a focus on various cities in Canada, in Detroit, and in Oulu, Finland, Scott confronts the popular notion that cycling and driving are merely antagonistic systems and challenges social-scientific research that elides morality and the common good. Instead of pitting bikes against cars, Assembling Moral Mobilities looks at five moral values based on canonical political philosophies of the common good, and argues that both cycling and driving figure into larger, more important "moral assemblages of mobility," finally concluding that the deeper meta-lesson that proponents of cycling ought to take from driving is to focus on ecological responsibility, equality, and home at the expense of neoliberal capitalism. Scott offers a fresh perspective of mobilities and the city through a multifaceted investigation of cycling informed by historical lessons of automobility. (Amazon)

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Review Peter Cox (December 2021) Review of "Assembling moral mobilities: Cycling, cities, and the common good". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 476-478). unapi

Review Lucy Baker; Paola Castañeda; Matthew Dalstrom; Ankur Datta; Tanja Joelsson; Mario Jordi-Sánchez; Jennifer Lynn Kelly; Dhan Zunino Singh (December 2020) Review of "Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility". Transfers (pp. 115-131). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuel, Martin
Oldenziel, Ruth
Tóth, Katalin
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
Héran, Frédéric
Friss, Evan
Concepts
urban transportation
Land transportation
Urban planning
Bicycles
Mobility
Public policy
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Paris (France)
Magdeburg, Germany
Oryol, USSR
Maastricht
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Institutions
Club des Villes Cyclables
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