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OverviewBicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and utopian studies (Levitas 2010, 2013), this book imagines a slow bicycle system as a necessary means to achieving more sustainable mobility futures. The imagination of a slow bicycle system is done in three ways: Scenario building to anticipate how cycling mobilities will look in the year 2050. A critique of the system of automobility and of fast cycling futures. An investigation of the cycling senses and sociabilities to describe the type of societies that such a slow bicycle system will enable. Bicycle Utopias will appeal to students and scholars in fields such as sociology, mobilities studies, human geography and urban and transport studies. This work may also be of interest to advocates, activists and professionals in the domains of cycling and sustainable mobilities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cosmin PopanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9780367582241ISBN 10: 0367582244 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 30 June 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1, Prologue: Imagining a slow bicycle system The new ‘structure of feeling’ The end of neoliberalism: embracing the slow The urban form Bike + train + cargo = love Cycling as mobility policy From subculture to culture The bicycle economy and big data Know-how and technology transfer Innovations in bicycles and accessories Broader societal and economic changes Steps from 2016 to 2050 Chapter 2, Introduction: Tips of the cycling iceberg Chapter 3: How to imagine biketopias Utopia as method Conclusions: Enacting the social Chapter 4: Beyond autopia The elephant in the city From autopia to Carmageddon Electric, autonomous, networked, shared The mobility growth paradigm Going car-free Careless car-free? Conclusions: Beyond cars, beyond growth Chapter 5: Utopias, dystopias, biketopias In praise of slowness Early biketopias of modernity and progress Fast cycling for urban regeneration and growth Slow bicycle utopias Mad Max on a bike Convivial biketopias Bike spaces of hope Conclusions: A break from growth Chapter 6: Senses On growing pedals Velomobility at a glance Grow ears, awaken the whole body Working the inner body: balance and movement Pain festivities: ‘sufferfest’ How to achieve eurhythmia? Conclusions: Flowing towards eudaimonia Chapter 7: Sociabilities Cycling as interaction order and sociable practice The Ride-Formation Swarm sociabilities Conversation sociabilities Carnivalesque sociabilities Club sociabilities The chain-gang The accordion Conclusions: Fluid Ride-Formations Chapter 8: Slowness Need for speed Tactics of slowness Affecting the slow Slowness, sufficiency, de-growth Conclusions: A norm of sufficiency Chapter 9: ConclusionsReviewsWhat might an urban cycling future look like? This book makes a unique contribution to the sociology of mobilities and mobile methods with a critical and creative examination of where we are and where we could be. Popan questions the normative dominance of 'fast' urban mobilities, namely the utopian promise of the car, with his thorough and in-depth analysis of 'slow' cycling cultures. This timely investigation of post-automobility futures challenges the reader to imagine the possibilities of different sensory, embodied and social worlds. Kat Jungnickel, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear This book impressively explores so many dimensions of changing bicycle mobilities-among them economics, policy, cultural meaning, embodiment, identity, sociability, and technology-that it is a must-read. It is also a unique and forward-thinking book, weaving together innovative methods, critical analysis, and utopian thinking to envision a future 'slow bicycle system,' and, more importantly, the actions and changes necessary in the present to construct that future. Cosmin Popan is a sophisticated guide through these complicated issues, and one cannot but admire the ambition and accomplishment here. Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont, author of Reconsidering the Bicycl Author InformationCosmin Popan is Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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