Sustainable Mobility Cultures and the SDGs: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

Mobility culture is an inter-and transdisciplinary analytical concept in transportation and mobility research across disciplines, stemming from social sciences, geography, and related fields. It includes infrastructure, built environment and technology as well as political and societal discourses, social and cultural practices, and behavior and attitudes concerning mobility. It combines physical and spatial structures with social practices and covers the individual as well as the collective plane of society. The concept can be employed to frame development, in a comparative spatial sense or in a comparative temporal sense.

Adolescence Locked Down? Morphing Temporality as a Strategy to Construct Hope and Control in Visions of the Future by Adolescent Girls Under Lockdown

“…The girls' status included the transition into legal driving age, graduating from compulsory schooling, possibly moving away from where they grew up, and beginning a new career or education. These are all possible contributing factors to the emergence of new mobilities, when the 'new mobilities paradigm' (Sheller and Urry, 2006) is evoked as a 'sensitizing concept' (Blumer, 1986;Charmaz, 2014) and a movement-focused understanding of mobility decoupled from spatiality is applied (Bosen and Leicht-Scholten, 2020;Cresswell, 2006). However, interviewees had just experienced the beginning of lockdown, schools were closed and mobility was restricted by the government.…”

Sociocultural dimensions of mobility transitions to come: introduction to the special issue

“…A second approach for the analysis of the sociocultural dimensions of mobility is the mobility culture framework (see, e.g., Deffner et al 2006Deffner et al , 2012G€ otz, Deffner, and Klinger 2007). While the mobilities paradigm is internationally established, the mobility culture framework is mainly known in the German-language region and is usually referenced for comparative studies (Bosen and Leicht-Scholten 2020;Haustein and Sick Nielsen 2016;Klinger, Kenworthy, and Lanzendorf 2013;Klinger and Lanzendorf 2016). As one can see in the figure below, Jutta Deffner and colleagues identify different areas of influence such as politics and urban planning or communication that are constitutive of what they call mobility culture.…”