Met Guillaume, who also told us about the rise and eventual closure of Le Recycleurwhere he used to work, which was pretty much the oldest workshop in France and which lost a battle to keep its premises (1994-2017). We are seeking papers providing a mix of papers introducing ways of critically engaging with urban mobilities from a Urban Political ecology perspective. Failures of making urban mobilities more sustainable might call for new ways of framing doing travel in urban contexts and for critically analyzing the allegedly political solutions around this topic. Often, these interventions for transitions cause unevenly distributed burden for different groups of urban inhabitants. Urban transport is a massive contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and hence a point of intervention to policy makers to foster transitions. Current discussion on climate change, on mitigation and adaptation strategies have brought urban mobilities to the forefront. Urban political ecology (UPE) supports understanding “the ways in which political, economic, and ecological processes work together to shape and transform cities and the lives of the people who live in them” (Heynen 2017). The Political Ecology of Urban Mobilities POLLEN Biennial Conference 2020, 22-25 September 2020 Longer, less concise version, better quality here (30 mins) Improvised version and questions here (20 mins) Overcoming urban automobility in community bike workshops: a political ecology approach. They have complexities compared to building more supply-side bike friendly infrastructure, the latter generally favoured by planners and engineers, but they do increase cycling ‘demand’ in particular urban localities.īatterbury SPJ. Workshops form part of the ‘urban commons’ and ‘mobility justice’, are reliant on an ever-changing mix of participants and aspirations, and follow different trajectories. Comparative research was conducted from 2015-2021 through 45+ workshop visits, interviews, and participant-observation, mainly in Brussels, across France, the US west coast, and Australia. I offer a typology of workshops, and an exploration of their key contributions and challenges. In all cases, workshops contribute to sociality and a culture of active travel. A few meet the needs of particular social groups, particularly the socially disadvantaged. Largely staffed by volunteers, and lying outside mainstream state or corporate control, they assist anybody to keep mobile through maintaining their own bike, cheaply. As part of a cycling renaissance, community bike workshops or ‘bike kitchens’ have flourished in Western countries, now numbering in the thousands. Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne/Lancaster UniversityĮveryday cycling in cities is a form of ‘active’ travel, and a response to mobility crises, congestion, and climate concerns. 17 Sept 2021.Ĭommunity bike workshops: place-based organisations and the culture of active travel At a conference organised by universities in Northern UK.
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