The Joy of Biking Together: Sharing Everyday Experiences of Vélomobility

McIlvenny, Paul

doi:10.1080/17450101.2013.844950

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“…In this project we were principally concerned with the in situ unfolding o f social action. So, following the work o f Laurier (2014;Laurier and Lorimer, 2012), Spinney (2010;), Brown et al (2008, and Mcllvenny (2013), we decided to use a video-based methodology. As such, this paper originates in the collection and analysis of just under eight hours o f video footage recorded during sixteen 'ride-alongs' (Spinney, 2011) with nine cyclists during June and July 2010.…”

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Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling

Latham

Wood

2015

Environ Plan A

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C ontem porary cities are thick with infrastructure. In recognition o f this fact a great deal o f recent work within urban studies and urban geography has focused on transform ations in the governance and ownership o f infrastructural elements within cities. Less attention has been paid to the practices through which urban infrastructures are inhabited by urban dwellers. Yet in all sorts o f ways infrastructures are realised through their use and inhabitation. This paper argues for the im portance o f attending to the ways that infrastructures are reinterpreted through use. Focusing on a case study of com m uter cyclists in L ondon, it explores the ways in which cyclists accom m odate themselves to (and are in tu rn accom m odated by) the infrastructural orderings o f L ondon's streets. Confronted by the obduracy o f a road infrastructure designed prim arily for m otorised traffic, cyclists show a diverse range o f approaches to negotiating movement through the city on bikes.The paper describes how this negotiation can be understood in terms of the m ore or less skilful processes o f navigation, rule following, rule making, and rule bending. This involves a polym orphous mix o f practices, some com m on to driving, others to walking, and yet others unique to cycling. In conclusion, the paper suggests th at transform ations o f infrastructures found within cities need to be understood as m uch through emergent changes between their elements, and that close attention to how infrastructures come to be inhabited offers productive avenues for thinking about ways to improve them.

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Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling

Latham

Wood

2015

Environ Plan A

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“…Furness 2010Furness , 2007Goodwin 2013;McIlvenny 2013a, 5). Velomobilities research has considered identity (Aldred 2012;Fincham 2007;Skinner and Rosen 2007;Steinbach et al 2011), touring (Pesses 2010), the arrangements of bodies and bicycles in group rides (McIlvenny 2013a(McIlvenny , 2013b, gender (Clarsen 2014;Mackintosh and Norcliffe 2007) as well as embodied and multi-sensory aspects (Jensen, Sheller, and Wind 2014;Jungnickel and Aldred 2014;Jones 2005;Lugo 2013;Spinney 2007Spinney , 2009, amongst many others. Velomobility can be part of 'utopian urbanism' as discussed by Furness -one of the first to use the term -in his analysis of Critical Mass (Furness 2007, 299).…”

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Why cycling matters for electric mobility: towards diverse, active and sustainable e-mobilities

Behrendt

2017

Mobilities

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To cite this article: Frauke Behrendt (2018) Why cycling matters for electric mobility: towards diverse, active and sustainable e-mobilities, Mobilities, 13:1, 64-80, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017 Media studies, school of Media, University of brighton, brighton, UK ABSTRACT This paper proposes the concept of e-velomobility. E-velomobility covers practices, systems and technologies of electrically-assisted cycling where velomobility's pedal-power combines with e-mobility's battery/motor assistance to propel the rider. The concept draws on research and policies around e-mobility, velomobility and e-bikes. Results of an analysis of qualitative material from a UK trial of e-bikes illustrate how e-velomobility is experienced. The empirical material and the conceptual approach show e-velomobility as a distinct and important form of mobility with implications for research agendas and e-mobility policy. E-velomobility and the more diverse understanding of e-mobility suggested in this paper could support a shift of strategies and policies towards more active and sustainable as well as less expensive modes of e-mobility than the current focus on electric cars.

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“…This methodology was inspired by a growing body of research on linguistic landscape that have employed ethnographic and/or participatory methods, in particular, Garvin's (2008) walking tour interviews, Stroud and Jegels's (2014) narrated walks, and Hult's (2014) drive-thru landscaping, as well as mobile video ethnography (McIlvenny 2015;Pink 2007). As a "phenomenological research method that attends to sensorial elements of human experience and place-making" (Pink 2007, 240), mobile ethnography is well aligned with the conceptualization of landscape as temporal (Ingold 1993) and mobile (Berger 1990;Chmielewska 2005).…”

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Spaces of consumption and senses of place: a geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong

Lou

2017

Social Semiotics

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While spaces of consumption have been extensively studied in geography, recent sociolinguistic research on metrolingual markets, semiotic landscapes, and translanguaging space present new ways to examine the linguistic, semiotic, and sensory aspects of these prosaic spaces. Integrating these perspectives in a geosemiotic framework, this paper examines the interactions in three markets in Hong Kong which have emerged as important social spaces for three participants during a larger ethnographic project. Through video walks, interviews, and participant observations, it is found that each market embodies a unique configuration of the geosemiotic aggregate and the customers selectively attended to specific modes of communication and sensory properties of the spaces, which in turn shaped their experiences of the place. Thus, this paper suggests that situated analyses of linguistic, semiotic, and material resources in everyday interactions can contribute to a better understanding of the dialogical relationship between spaces of consumption and senses of place.

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The Joy of Biking Together: Sharing Everyday Experiences of Vélomobility

Cited by 68 publications

References 82 publications

Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling

Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling

Why cycling matters for electric mobility: towards diverse, active and sustainable e-mobilities

Spaces of consumption and senses of place: a geosemiotic analysis of three markets in Hong Kong

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