Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities

Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene; Hannam, Kevin; Kesselring, Sven

doi:10.1080/23800127.2016.1150562

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“…Contrary to the belief that the coexistence of virtual and physical mobilities can result in reduced physical mobilities, existing evidence show that virtual mobilities can create additional physical mobilities (Freudendal‐Pedersen, Hannam, & Kesselring, ). In the study area, most unemployed youths have friends who have migrated to other countries and maintain contact using DTs.…”

Section: Youth Mobility In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 90%

Digital technologies and youth mobility in ruralZimbabwe

Gwaka

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The adoption and use of digital technologies (DTs) in rural communities have an impact on several aspects of the society. Using empirical evidence from selected villages of Beitbridge district in Zimbabwe, this study examines the relationship between DTs and youth mobility. The different types, causes, and motifs associated with youth mobilities are explored using qualitative research methods including focus group discussions and community visioning workshops. Study findings reveal challenges facing youths in trying to be mobile including social (mainly gender) inequalities. Thus, women were found to be less mobile. Lack of infrastructure was found to be another key challenge impacting youth mobility. The study however found that DTs are being adopted and this has led to virtual mobilities, which is redefining youth mobility. The opportunities and challenges of integrating virtual mobilities and physical mobilities were explored. The study findings are critical to various actors including ICT, education, and other sectors in that they show opportunities that need to be expropriated to enhance youth mobility, which is key to socio‐economic well‐being of youths, as well as the challenges that can be faced through the ubiquity of DTs.

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Section: Youth Mobility In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 90%

Digital technologies and youth mobility in ruralZimbabwe

Gwaka

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Mobility has been seen, historically, as the possibility to move, unhindered, from A to B (to C) by the easiest and fastest route possible, thus supporting the freedom of the individual and a 'better life' (Freudendal-Pedersen, Hannam, and Kesselring 2016). Within this traditional paradigm, transport planning is often of the type known as 'predict and provide'.…”

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Exploring how politicians reflect on counteracting measures: the case of the Trondheim package

Øksenholt

Tennøy

2018

Applied Mobilities

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Transitioning towards a low emission society is a goal of numerous international and national political and administrative levels. This includes reducing impacts of road transport. While aiming for a transition towards more sustainable mobility, it is particularly striking that road capacity expansion is presently under planning or implementation in most main cities in Norway. Against this backdrop, we decided to study Trondheim's Environmental Transport Package because this has a strong environmental profile with main objectives of reducing CO2 emissions and limiting car traffic, while at the same time increasing road capacity. Our exploration of how political decision-makers reflect on including road capacity expansion in a plan aimed at reducing traffic volume is only a first step towards finding out how an apparent disconnect between stated objectives and policy measures is reconciled. This might provide opportunities for better understanding and influencing politicians' framing and actions early on, before measures are included that counteract the transition towards more sustainable mobility. We believe our explorative study reveals how motivated political decision-makers reason when faced with conflicting goals and contradictions, and, may contribute to a better understanding of what hinders transition in similar processes in other cities in Norway and abroad.

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“…Scientific approaches to develop practice-oriented research in issues regarding sustainability are a growing field, engaging a still greater number of scientific disciplines (Lang et al 2012;Becker and Jahn 1999;Nowotny, Scott, and Gibbons 2001). The Formula M project focussed on trying to establish social change around the fussy, and highly diverse, concept of sustainability (Swyngedouw 2010), from an outset in the 'mobilities turn' which has put mobilities at the centre, in attempts to understand society within the last decade (Urry 2007;Hannam, Sheller, and Urry 2006;Cresswell 2006;Freudendal-Pedersen, Hannam, and Kesselring 2016). The methodology of the Formula M project was inspired by the critical utopian action research approach (Jungk and Müllert 1987;Aagaard Nielsen and Svensson 2006).…”

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Interactive environmental planning: creating utopias and storylines within a mobilities planning project

Freudendal-Pedersen

Hartmann-Petersen

Kjærulff

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This article presents a research project on mobility management in Danish municipalities aimed at creating more sustainable mobilities. The project, called Formula M (2011-2014), worked within sciences, public and private sectors, and civil society. Often contemporary projects in both planning and designing sustainable mobilities fall short when it comes to changing praxis to limit CO2 emissions, where they just concentrate on technocratic elements. They often neglect the 'why' and 'for what' which is needed in order to drive such change. In the Formula M project, focus has been on supporting the planners involved in the project on their 'why' and 'for what'. Based on a theoretical understanding of relational and collaborative planning the article contributes to an understanding of which approaches and methods can be used to facilitate the relationships and dialogues between many actors. Methodologically, this has been sought through a specific focus on the role of utopias as a tool for storytelling.

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Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities

Abstract: The mobilities paradigm has, during the last decade, proven its usefulness in investigating how the socio-material mobilities of modern societies have transformed fundamental aspects of social interaction, communication and exchange (

Cited by 29 publications

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Digital technologies and youth mobility in ruralZimbabwe

Digital technologies and youth mobility in ruralZimbabwe

Exploring how politicians reflect on counteracting measures: the case of the Trondheim package

Interactive environmental planning: creating utopias and storylines within a mobilities planning project

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