Reactivating commuter cycling: COVID-19 pandemic disruption to everyday transport choices in Sydney, Australia

Waitt, Gordon R; Stanes, Elyse

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103270

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“…Our sensory analysis builds upon the methodological work relating to mapping the embodied dimensions of cycling mobility (Waitt & Stanes, 2022 ). A group of 30 participants consented for our project entitled: “The reactivated bike: taking up cycling in Sydney during the pandemic”.…”

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“…Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari ( 1987 ), Cox ( 2019 ) and McCullough et al ( 2019 ) employ the concept of cycling assemblage to de‐centre the human subject, shifting the focus to the ways in which bodies, bikes, transport infrastructure policies and publics come together in a “machinic relation” to achieve mobility. Here, we build the analytical potential of the concept of territory as the first form of the assemblage to serve as an affective spatial rendering of the ongoing transformation of everyday mobility (Dewsbury, 2011 ; Waitt & Stanes, 2022 ). For Deleuze and Guattari, territory is not specifically a matter of place or space, though it can have manifestations of that quality.…”

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COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom

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Buchanan

Lea

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The appearance and integration of e‐bikes in public space is a source of much debate worldwide. This paper offers insights to these debates by reflecting on how Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage as territory helps us to understand the uptake of e‐bike commuter cycling during the Covid‐19 pandemic through empirical material from a study conducted in Sydney, Australia. Here we conceptualise commuter journeys in terms of processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation; experienced through the affective territories generated by e‐bikes. The disclosure of commuter cycling sensations generated by the pandemic disruptions to commuter routines provided an important lens through which to understand the uptake of e‐bikes. The paper concludes by showing the utility of the concept of territory as a means of theorising changes to everyday mobility practices.

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COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom

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“…Such interactions help explain why bikes purchased to commute languish in garages, sheds, balconies, and attics (Waitt et al., 2021b). Stemming from rethinking cycling as a process of territorialisation are calls to rethink mobility justice (Waitt et al., 2021a), alongside the uptake of e‐bikes (Waitt et al., 2022) and the reactivation of commuter cycling in Sydney, Australia, following the COVID‐19 pandemic disruption of everyday work routines (Waitt & Stanes, 2022). A key consideration for cycling as a process of territorialisation has been the role of situated affectual socio‐material relations and everyday rhythmic movements.…”

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“…As the pandemic spread, many citizens responded to city 'lockdowns' by purchasing bikes to help manage emotions (Budd & Ison, 2020;De Vos, 2020). As part of the associated research endeavour, cycling geographies has been marked by the emergence of significant bodies of work drawing on various social and cultural theoretical perspectives including urban political economy (Spinney, 2020;Stehlin, 2015), phenomenology (Spinney, 2006), biopolitics (Aldred, 2012;Spinney, 2016), social practice theory (Larsen, 2018), performativity (Heim Lafrombois, 2019) and assemblage thinking (Dewsbury, 2011;Jones, 2012;Waitt et al, 2021aWaitt et al, , 2021bWaitt & Stanes, 2022). Taken together, this work augments understanding of cycling as an inherently spatial practice.…”

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Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well‐being

Waitt

Buchanan

2022

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Cycling has cut across public health and policy forums in the last decade given trends in urban governance for liveability and uptake of cycling during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review discusses work that helps understand where, how, and why time spent cycling can contribute to health and well-being. The review discusses how cycling geographies offers an alternative to biomedical approaches that measure the risks versus the medical benefits of riding a bike. The paper is structured around three key themes that characterise contemporary cycling geographies (a) cycling and neoliberalism; (b) cycling citizenship; and (c) everyday cycling.The paper argues, these studies have not gone far enough in understanding the relationship between well-being and cycling. To help address this gap the review offers a 'mobile territories of well-being' framework. To conclude, consideration is given to the policy implications of a cycling geographies research agenda engaging with a mobile territories of well-being framework.

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“…The world is currently faced with an era of disruption (disruption/chaos), not only 1(one) dimension of disruption but has become 3 (three) disruptions or Triple Disruption, namely: Industrial Revolution 4.0, Covid 19 Pandemic and Society Revolution 5.0 (Choi & Siqin, 2022;Grybauskas et al, 2022;Marsden & Docherty, 2021;Rad et al, 2022;Sindhwani et al, 2022). Of the three disturbances, the disruption from the Covid 19 pandemic is the biggest nuisance that has an impact on changing life patterns in the community (Kareem, 2021;Morris et al, 2022;Waitt & Stanes, 2022). In the end of December 2019, The Covid 19 epidemic shook the entire globe virus, which spread and contagion reached all over the world, the World Health Organization declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic (Barrutia & Echebarria, 2021;Faraj et al, 2021;Malahayati et al, 2021).…”

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Analysis of Wages and Severance Pay During the Covid-19 Pandemic Reviewed from Labor Law

Wakhyuni

Nurhayati

Setiawan

2022

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The Corona Virus Disease 2019 pandemic was first discovered in the city of Wuhan, China at the end of December 2019. This virus spreads very quickly and has spread to almost all countries, including Indonesia. As a result of the spread of the Corona virus, it has a negative impact on several sectors such as the economic sector, business, tourism, industry, health and so on. The tourism sector has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Until now, almost all tourist destinations in Indonesia are closed. This is a very difficult condition, in Indonesia almost all tourist destinations, hotels, facilities, and entertainment are closed and are only allowed for 50% of visitors based on Government recommendations. The Karo Regency Government is also facing the same problem, one of the sectors that is relied upon to support Karo Regency's Original Regional Revenue (PAD) is from the tourism sector, and Brasatagi Subdistrict is one of the sub-districts that is the mainstay of the tourism sector in Karo Regency. Speaking of the tourism sector, the industry that is most closely related is Hotels and Restaurants. Throughout 2020 until mid-2021, the hotel occupancy rate in the Brastagi District fell by almost 90%. The very significant decline in the level of tourist visits, hotel occupancy and restaurant visitors in Brastagi District has caused entrepreneurs of tourist sites, hotels and restaurants to suffer huge losses. Employers are no longer able to cover all operational costs, including the cost of wages for workers. This forces employers to rearrange their working hours and calculate the number of workers that they still allow them to employ. Some of this is done by applying alternate vacations or leave to their employees, some of them who are no longer able to survive, are forced to lay off temporarily, cut wages. or terminate the employment of its employees. The findings in this study are that employers are still required to pay wages in full in the form of basic wages and fixed allowances as long as workers are laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic and are required to provide severance pay for workers who have been laid off in accordance with Article 156 of Law No. 2003 concerning Manpower and the Ninth Part, Article 37 concerning Payment of Wages in a State of Bankruptcy in the Government Regulation concerning Wages no. 78 of 2015.

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Reactivating commuter cycling: COVID-19 pandemic disruption to everyday transport choices in Sydney, Australia

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom

COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom

Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well‐being

Analysis of Wages and Severance Pay During the Covid-19 Pandemic Reviewed from Labor Law

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