Social Perspectives on Mobility.
Thomsen, Thyra Uth.
Social Perspectives on Mobility. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (232 pages) - Transport and Society Series . - Transport and Society Series .
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.
9781351899390
Social mobility.
Electronic books.
HT609.S63 2016
303.4832
Social Perspectives on Mobility. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (232 pages) - Transport and Society Series . - Transport and Society Series .
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.
9781351899390
Social mobility.
Electronic books.
HT609.S63 2016
303.4832