Social Perspectives on Mobility.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Mobility Research - A Growing Field of Social Enquiry -- PART I: MOBILITY AS CONSTRUCTED SOCIAL REALITY -- 1 Parents' Construction of Traffic Safety: Children's Independent Mobility at Risk? -- 2 Structural Stories, Mobility and (Un)freedom -- 3 Reflexive Mobility - A Critical and Action Oriented Perspective on Transport Research -- PART II: MOBILITY AS SPATIAL CO-ORDINATION AND TRANSGRESSION -- 4 Impacts of Infrastructure Investment on Logistics and Transport - Examples from the Fixed Links of the Great Belt and Oresund in Denmark -- 5 Involving Freight Transport Actors in Production of Knowledge - Experience with Future Workshop Methodology -- PART III: MOBILITY AS A POLICY THEME -- 6 Mobility as a Policy Concept -- 7 The Institutionalisation of European Transport Policy from a Mobility Perspective -- 8 New Conditions for Decision-making and Coordination in Transport? Corporatisation and Division in the Danish Railway Sector -- 9 Democracy, Civil Society and Automobility: Understanding Battles against Motorways -- Epilogue Mobility, Sustainability and Beyond -- Index.

Bringing together the latest interdisciplinary theoretical approaches with empirical case studies analysing and appraising innovative policies from Scandinavia, this volume demonstrates that mobility research is a key issue within social enquiry. It addresses three broad themes, and in the final section of the book new visions for research into sustainability and mobility are laid out.

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