“Toma‐La Ciudad”: Intersubjective Activism in Guadalajara's Streets and City Museum

García, Richard

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“…Cycloactivists often told me that they understand the difficulty for drivers and others to understand the cycling experience if they have not cycled themselves, and that awareness is at the root of performative interventions in the public sphere, i.e. to spur a sense of empathy among urban dwellers (Acosta García 2018). Cycloactivists choose to use their own bodies to highlight their vulnerability in streets and avenues and to make onlookers reflect and act differently.…”

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“…In part, my interest in cycloactivism and its struggles for improved mobility and the environment are due to its practical shaping of aspirations for democratic governance outside of established channels in Mexico City. This, I believe, is related to the bodily experience of cycling in the city and the rational and emotional reflexivity it produces among people (Acosta García 2018;Männistö-Funk 2020). By blatantly breaking a few rules, cycloactivists shed light on the need for rules to better reflect what the collective needs.…”

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Cycloactivism in Mexico City

García¹

2023

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Cycling in Mexico City is dangerous. But over the last two decades it has become less so. New cycleways, a large public bicycle-sharing scheme, various government cycling promotion projects and an abundance of official signalling demanding respect for cyclists have made bicycles visible as worthy vehicles on city streets. For cycloactivists, however, such improvements are not enough. Cyclists are frequently harassed, attacked or run over by motorists. Cycloactivists thus demand more and better cycleways as well as increased measures to address injustices in mobility issues across the city. They do so through protests, information campaigns, public performances and academic debates, and crucially, by cycling through city streets. This means that they use their bodies as symbols, to highlight their vulnerability. Along the way, they often break existing traffic rules to highlight how unfair they are and to draw attention to other demands. I refer to their efforts as experiential cycloactivism, which highlights cyclists making themselves vulnerable as a means of denouncing illegitimate rules and policies that need to be changed. I conclude the analysis by suggesting that their style of rule-breaking is a type of ritual with which they seek to improve the city, not burn it down.

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Cycloactivism in Mexico City

García¹

2023

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“…Zahlreiche Studien zum Laufsport sollen auch aufgrund ihrer thematischen Nähe zum Triathlon benannt werden: Bale, 2004Bale, , 2011Hockey, 2009;Allen-Collinson und Hockey, 2010;Shipway und Holloway, 2010;Allen-Collinson und Owton, 2015;Allen-Collinson, 2003;Palmer, 2016b;Hockey, 2009;Carlén und Maivorsdotter, 2016;Allen-Collinson, 2008. Aber auch das Fahrradfahren bietet diverse fachnahe Publikationen: Jungnickel und R. Aldred, 2013;Groth, 2014;Vivanco, 2013;Augé, 2016;Oldenziel u. a., 2016;Horton, 2007;Krahn und Tschofen, 2016;Tóth, 2013;Acosta-García, 2019;Wulfinghoff, 2019. 16 Gerade die Überschneidung zu Arbeiten, die eher der Ethnologie zugeordnet werden könnten, werden sichtbar, wie der Sammelband mit den Titel "Ethnologie und Sport" (Husmann, 2002).…”

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Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

Krahn¹

2021

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The «bricoleur» is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but, unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with «whatever is at hand», that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions or destructions. The set of the «bricoleur's» means [. . . ] is to be defined only by its potential use or, putting this another way and in the language of the «bricoleur» himself, because the elements are collected or retained on the principle that «they may always come in handy». Such elements are specialized up to a point, sufficiently for the «bricoleur» not to need the equipment and knowledge of all trades and professions, but not enough for each of them to have only one definite and determinate use".Der Umfang der einzelnen Unterkapitel, bei denen ich mich mit den angewandten Methoden auseinandersetze, sind unterschiedlich umfangreich ausgefallen. Dies spiegelt weder eine Wertigkeit der Methoden wider, noch den Umfang, in dem sie Anwendung fanden. Viel eher habe ich bewusst versucht, methodologische Überlegungen an den Stellen auszubauen, an denen mein Feld diese Überlegungen erforderlich gemacht hat -diese Anforderungen variieren. Besonders augenscheinlich ist dies bei den Methoden, die im Fachzusammenhang in den Kulturwissenschaften nicht omnipräsent sind. Darunter fallen beispielsweise die Autoethnografie, die Bewegten Interviews und die Mental Maps. Auch die Fotoethnografie hat ein hohes Mass an methodisch-analytischer Auseinandersetzung erfordert, auch wenn die Analysen dieser Materialien innerhalb der Arbeit nur einen kleinen Teil ausmachen. Das Kapitel 5 stellt eine Ethnografie der praktizierenden Triathlet * innen dar, die zwar nicht alle relevanten Aspekte behandelt, doch szenenspezifische Besonderheiten herausarbeitet. Daher ist dieses Kapitel besonders umfangreich ausgefallen. Allen Kapiteln ausser der Einleitung und dem Schlussteil habe ich kurze inhaltliche Übersichten vorangestellt. Den Kapiteln 2 -4 habe ich übergeordnete Fazite angefügt, in den Kapiteln 5 und 6 finden sich derartige Zusammenfassungen zu den einzelnen Unterkapiteln -entsprechend der thematischen Weitläufigkeit dieser Kapitel. Ausserdem habe ich die aus dem Triathlon entlehnten Begrifflichkeiten, die in den Hauptüberschriften wiederzufinden sind, um Erklärungen aus dem Bereich des Triathlons ergänzt, wie im Abschnitt zum Wettkampfreglement geschehen. Ich verbrachte viele Stunden schwimmend, radfahrend und rennend, unterrichtete Trainings, war allein, mit Freunden, mit beforschten Triathlet * innen, im Wald, auf der Finnenbahn, in ...

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“Toma‐La Ciudad”: Intersubjective Activism in Guadalajara's Streets and City Museum

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Cycloactivism in Mexico City

Cycloactivism in Mexico City

Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

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