Where is the politics? E-bike mobility in urban China and civilizational government

Zuev, Dennis; Tyfield, David; Urry, John

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2018.07.002

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“…The use of e-PMVs can lead to a cleaner, more sustainable future where e-powered fast and compact vehicles would be the primary mode of transportation but it can also have negative side effects, including: decreased road safety for PMV users themselves and other traffic participants; misuse of easily affordable dockless devices; and environmental problems, such as the mass e-scooter graveyards and discarded bike-share bicycles recently seen in China [68].…”

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Challenges Caused by Increased Use of E-Powered Personal Mobility Vehicles in European Cities

Zagorskas

Burinskienė

2019

Sustainability

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Increased use of e-powered personal mobility vehicles is usually considered to be a positive change, while it is generally agreed that Personal Mobility Vehicles (PMVs) effectively and efficiently reduce the negative environmental impacts of transport and improve quality of life. There has been great technological progress made by all sectors in the field of personal mobility during the last decade. The use of PMVs for micro-mobility have been welcomed by the market, consumers, and governments and thus they are becoming increasingly popular in modern European society. New technology-driven PMVs provide opportunities to their users, but at the same time create problems with street space sharing, road safety, and traffic offenses. This study gives an overview of recent types of PMVs, offers some insights into upcoming changes and challenges, and raises a discussion on themes related to the increased use of e-powered personal transporters.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Challenges Caused by Increased Use of E-Powered Personal Mobility Vehicles in European Cities

Zagorskas

Burinskienė

2019

Sustainability

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“…symbolize backwardness (SMPG 2002, 29-32) In addition to internal concerns, the pro-cycling policy shift through PBSS is partly the result of external forces at the global scale, through which cycling is repositioned as a new progressive subject of mobility. These external forces manifest as a cosmopolitan rationality of green mobility that reproduces "superficial discursive similarities" of "western-centric accounts" through diverse international events in China (Spinney & Lin, 2018;Zuev et al, 2019). In 2008 for example, the first large-scale public bike rental systemPBSS opened in conjunction with the Beijing Olympic Games.…”

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Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai

Lin

Spinney

2020

Urban Studies

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This paper contributes to debates on urban governance and mobility through a case study of the transformation of public bike sharing schemes in Shanghai (China) from fixed/docked (PBSS 1.0) to flexible/dockless (PBSS 2.0). Based upon stakeholder interviews and observations between 2015 and 2017, we use the concept of a dispositive to foreground two related processes. The first is the reformulation of the governmental dispositive that coalesces around PBSS in Shanghai. We show how the relations within the dispositive shift from more hierarchical, bounded, regulated and state-led to those characterised by a more dispersed, disconnected, horizontal and distant set of social relations. Second, we show how this dispositive both produces and is produced by an emergent environmentality that manifests in a fixed territoriality in PBSS 1.0 and a more fluid and deterritorialised digital environmentality in PBSS 2.0. In framing this shift, we demonstrate how PBSS 2.0 produces a new dispositive of urban governmentality where the conduct of users is dispersed through a much less co-ordinated network of actors and technologies. Ultimately we argue that it is no longer possible to separate physical and virtual mobility when trying to understand the internal dynamics and external manifestations of mobility governance, which in our example are characterised by less localised and less hierarchical relationships that are more fluid, voluntary and physically distant.

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“…Note first how the electric vehicle offers little to address either of these issues at present. Indeed, the EV adds its own catalogue of risks and novel system bads, including range anxiety (compounded by gridlocked traffic), poor and/or uncertain resale values, and even hazards of sitting on top of a massive battery, as per high-profile fires and a widespread unease at 'radiation' affecting one's health (Zuev et al, 2019). Conversely, digital mobilities directly address both of these clear-and-present risksand in ways pragmatically conceivable to the individual given existing system constraints, 22 while thereby actually changing system dynamics, technologies and power relations, albeit not as their primary goal.…”

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Low-Carbon Transition as Vehicle of New Inequalities? Risk-Class, the Chinese Middle-Class and the Moral Economy of Misrecognition

Curran

Tyfield

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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Low-carbon innovation is usually depicted as an exemplar of pursuit of the common good, in both mainstream policy discussion and the emerging orthodoxy of transition studies. Yet it may emerge as a key means of intensifying inequality. We analyse low-carbon innovation as a social and political process through the prism of differential risk-classes, focusing on the pivotal global case of emergence of the Chinese middle-class in seaboard megacities, especially regarding the profound challenges of urban e-mobility transition. This approach shows emergence of this still-forming sociopolitical grouping as tightly and complementarily coupled with the assembling of innovations that meaningfully tackle global risks, such as climate change, while also intensifying existing inequalities. Misrecognition of the duality of low-carbon innovations as both moral technologies and as relatively expensive consumer products has the potentiality to be a key mechanism of this process, thereby serving to reproduce, constitute and legitimize inequalities in novel and unexpected ways.

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Where is the politics? E-bike mobility in urban China and civilizational government

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

Challenges Caused by Increased Use of E-Powered Personal Mobility Vehicles in European Cities

Challenges Caused by Increased Use of E-Powered Personal Mobility Vehicles in European Cities

Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai

Low-Carbon Transition as Vehicle of New Inequalities? Risk-Class, the Chinese Middle-Class and the Moral Economy of Misrecognition

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