Changing Mobilities

Monika Büscher is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her research on mobilities explores low-carbon transport innovation, the informationalisation of emergency response and risk governance, IT ethics, and infrastructuring equitable urban futures. She has led research in range of national and international projects (DecarboN8, GREAT, BRIDGE, and SecInCoRe). She has published many articles and books, including Ethnograpies of Diagnostic Work, Mobile Methods, and Design Research. Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives. She edits the book series Changing Mobilities (Routledge) with Peter Adey.Greg Marsden is Professor of Transport Governance at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. He has researched issues surrounding the design and implementation of new policies for over 20 years, covering a range of issues. He is an expert in climate and energy policy in the transport sector and the governance of smart mobility. He is currently exploring the role of place in the energy transition and the potential for transformative post-car-ownership futures.

Changing Mobilities is a game changing book in the best way possible. It shows us the realities we face in transportation's contribution to the climate crisis. It analyses the massive yet also day-to-day transformations that need to take place in how we live. And it offers up hopeful possibilities of how we might get there. Büscher and Marsden build on decades of experience in real-world analysis and experimentation, each bringing unique perspectives that are beautifully woven together here. Anyone interested in our collective future should read this book and consider how to start changing mobilities in your own local context. The task before us is sobering yet inspiring, practical yet full of imagination, terribly daunting yet perfectly do-able if only we collaborate and work together. The message they leave us with: We can think and act differently – bolstered by ideas such as buen vivir and the mobile undercommons – to overcome obstacles and move beyond our deadly over-reliance on automobility. Dr. Mimi Sheller, Dean of The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USAThis is an amazing book. It perfectly outlines the issue of sustainable mobilities and the urgent need to include research currently excluded from the mainstream knowledge system, for change to happen. It addresses the topic both theoretically and empirically and pushes theoretical thinking forward – toward what could be possible. Very importantly, it still manages to hold onto hope for the future.Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Professor in Urban Planning, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, DenmarkA powerful and passionate argument for what buen vivir worldviews and their practices have to offer to our common future, and for the role that mobilities, divergent, dissenting, and shared, can play in its shaping. Evocative and clear sighted, wide-ranging and political, Changing Mobilities is transformative scholarship at its best.Professor Carlos López Galviz, Chair in History and Social Futures, Lancaster University, UKWhat a stunning read! Büscher and Marsden take a stand against climate change ignorance, fake news, and systematic disregard for facts, humanity, and justice. Two outstanding scholars show what the mobile risk society needs: science with a hot heart and a cool analytical mind – not ready to surrender!Sven Kesselring, Professor in Sustainable Mobilities, Nuertingen – Geislingen University, Germany

• 1. Introduction 2. How to Be Radical? 3. What Moves Us? 4. A Question of Time 5. Now Here 6. A Mobile Undercommons 7. Thinking Differently 8. Acting Differently 9. Conclusion: Changing Mobilities for Good