Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI:10.1080/17450101.2024.2389846

Henrike Rau , Antonia Matern

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Abstract

Mobility practices in everyday life are often highly routinised and resistant to change. But they can also change significantly over the life course, reflecting sudden ruptures linked to incisive life events and more gradual shifts related to changing societal and environmental conditions. Combining insights from practice-theoretical mobility studies and mobility biographies research, this paper critically examines the role of material, social and cultural elements in transforming routine mobility practices, focusing on car ownership and use across the life course. Drawing on mobility-biographical interviews with people who live in Munich (Germany) and who do not own a car, it reveals the complexity of both one-off and daily decisions that help to establish and routinise carless mobility practices, linking them to social and material conditions past and present. The paper also documents the role of environmental and climate-related arguments in the transition towards carlessness, alongside shifts in infrastructure, social and economic circumstances and mobility-related skills and meanings. It concludes with some recommendations for sustainable mobility policy that works with the dynamics of car ownership and use across the life course and that incorporates both social and material aspects underpinning people’s decision to give up their private car.

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在不断变化的气候中的出行方式：了解一生中汽车拥有和使用的变化

日常生活中的出行方式往往是高度常规化的，而且难以改变。但在人的一生中，它们也会发生重大变化，反映出与重大生活事件相关的突然断裂，以及与不断变化的社会和环境条件相关的渐进转变。本文结合流动实践理论研究和流动传记研究的见解，批判性地审视了物质、社会和文化因素在改变日常流动实践中的作用，重点关注整个生命历程中的汽车拥有和使用情况。通过对生活在慕尼黑（德国）的无车人士进行流动传记访谈，本文揭示了一次性决定和日常决定的复杂性，这些决定有助于建立无车流动实践并使之常规化，同时将其与过去和现在的社会和物质条件联系起来。论文还记录了环境和气候相关论点在向无车化过渡过程中的作用，以及基础设施、社会和经济环境以及与交通相关的技能和意义的变化。最后，本文对可持续交通政策提出了一些建议，这些政策应与人们一生中拥有和使用汽车的动态变化相结合，并将人们决定放弃私家车的社会和物质因素纳入其中。

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Mobilities Multiple-

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5.40

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期刊介绍： Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.