Spaces of Mobility

The imprint of increasing mobility in a globalizing world is so profound that it calls for an analysis far beyond the fora of established academic disciplines. Only a truly inter - and transdisciplinary research approach can do justice to the complexity of problems emerging in the spaces of mobility. The authors of this book have chosen to emphasize mobility not only as a social problem, but to reflect it in a broader sense. The title "Spaces of Mobility" reflects the insight that nearly all modern and late modern systems for the movement of people and goods are technically constructed and that they create spaces and places with specific qualities. Given this perspective, it is meaningful to emphasize both the social (including the economic and political) implications of mobility and the ideologies and practices that influence the design, production and distribution of artefacts for mobility. And because "mobilities", i.e. different modes of technically aided movement, are products of human beings, this means that the human dimension of mobility also needs to be mined deeper. Mobilities never occur in an empty space, but human moveability and motion are always a part of our natural and built environments. Along with the sociological and human dimensions of mobility, its spatial, environmental dimension also must be taken seriously. The contributions of this volume do not offer one single theory or methodology for transdisciplinary mobility studies, but are instead meant to promote the development of overarching approaches in the future. The aesthetic aspects of perception are interwoven with ethical aspects of producing normative criteria for evaluating motion in space; psychological aspects of interacting with others in complex surroundings are interconnected with the social belongings of human beings in transit; political aspects of the future of democracy and participatory planning are dependent on the design and construction of technical artefacts and spaces.

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Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Letters and Sciences and on the editorial boards of the journals Junge Kirche, Blackwell s Compass Religion, Theology, Ecotheology and Norsk Teologisk Tidskrift. He is the author of a number of books, most recently in English, God in Context: A Survey in Contextual Theology (Ashgate, 2003), Creation Set Free: The Spirit as Liberator of Nature (Eerdmans 2005), and Architecture, Aesth/Ethics and Religion (ed.) (IKO-Verlag/Transaction 2005). Thomas Hoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. Tore Sager is Professor in the Department of Civil and Transport Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Preface 1. Introduction Sigurd Bergmann/Thomas Hoff/Tore Sager 2. The Beauty of Speed or the Cross of Mobility? - Introductory Reflections on the Aesth/Ethics of Space, Justice and Motion Sigurd Bergmann 3. Hypermobility and the Forecast-free Planning of Society Tore Sager 4. 'Green' attitudes and sustainable household consumption of energy and transport - Six conditions that improve attitude-behaviour consistency Erling Holden 5. Travelling as Pilgrimage - Ecotheological Contributions to Mobility Ethics Anders Melin 6. The Bodily Basis of Control in Technically Aided Movement Kjell Ivar Overgard/Cato Alexander Bjorkli/Thomas Hoff 7. What Modes of Moving Do to Me - Reflections about Technogenic Processes of Identification David Kronlid 8. Global Vagabonds, Place and the Self: Psychological affects on work-related mobility on morality and world view Peter Nynas 9. Mobility: Discourses from the non-western immigrant groups in Norway Tanu Priya Uteng 10. Inclusive Mobility- Participation, Physical Barriers and the Concept of Universal Design Liv Ovstedal 11. Freedom as Mobility - Implications of the distinction between potential and revealed travelling Tore Sager

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