Changing Mobilities
Monika Büscher author Greg Marsden author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:29th Jul '26
£155.00
This title is due to be published on 29th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Climate Change demands a rapid and radical response. Mobility systems the world over must change; and they are changing. Massive global efforts are underway to make transport more sustainable. However, this is mainly focused on technological solutions, and the scale and pace of change is insufficient. The deep inequalities of existing and changing mobility systems amplify the challenge. So how can we change mobilities better? Which are the areas where ‘better’ matters most? And what approaches can we take – given that many initiatives are already under way? What more can we do? And, most importantly, how can we do it fairly?
Changing Mobilities takes the reader on a journey, beginning with the imperative to act. Büscher and Marsden reflect on the struggle for radical transformation between activism and vested interests. It becomes clear why change is so hard, and so strongly resisted, generating deep inter and intra-generational inequities. But alongside the technocratic macro narratives of ‘sustainable’ hypermobility there are many initiatives that build alternative mobilities of buen vivir, or good living, in harmony with nature. Büscher and Marsden highlight the need to change not just behaviours but cultural structures of feeling and institutions. They offer a critically hopeful reading of how to overcome the barriers to radical change through agonistic dialogue and experimentation. Change is inevitable as a result of climate change, and there is huge momentum for positive change. Büscher and Marsden argue that a more adaptive and radical footing can be found to enable equitable and sustainable mobile lives.
Changing Mobilities is aimed at researchers, practitioners and citizens who want to bring about positive change for their communities. It allows a deep dive into the systemic problem of climate change, but also provides examples of how research can work with communities to both think and act differently.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY)] 4.0 license.
Changing Mobilities is a game changing book in the best way possible. It shows us the realities we face in transportation's contribution to the climate crisis. It analyses the massive yet also day-to-day transformations that need to take place in how we live. And it offers up hopeful possibilities of how we might get there. Büscher and Marsden build on decades of experience in real-world analysis and experimentation, each bringing unique perspectives that are beautifully woven together here. Anyone interested in our collective future should read this book and consider how to start changing mobilities in your own local context. The task before us is sobering yet inspiring, practical yet full of imagination, terribly daunting yet perfectly do-able if only we collaborate and work together. The message they leave us with: We can think and act differently — bolstered by ideas such as buen vivir and the mobile undercommons — to overcome obstacles and move beyond our deadly over-reliance on automobility. - Dr. Mimi Sheller, Dean of The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US
This is an amazing book. It perfectly outlines the issue of sustainable mobilities and the urgent need to include research currently excluded from the mainstream knowledge system, for change to happen. It addresses the topic both theoretically and empirically and pushes theoretical thinking forward—toward what could be possible. Very importantly, it still manages to hold onto hope for the future. - Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Professor in Urban Planning, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
A powerful and passionate argument for what buen vivir worldviews and their practices have to offer to our common future, and for the role that mobilities, divergent, dissenting, and shared, can play in its shaping. Evocative and clear sighted, wide-ranging and political, Changing Mobilities is transformative scholarship at its best.- Professor Carlos López Galviz, Chair in History and Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK
What a stunning read! Büscher & Marsden take a stand against climate change ignorance, fake news, and systematic disregard for facts, humanity, and justice. Two outstanding scholars show what the mobile risk society needs: science with a hot heart and a cool analytical mind - not ready to surrender! - Sven Kesselring, Professor in Sustainable Mobilities, Nuertingen - Geislingen University, Germany
ISBN: 9780415661928
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
228 pages