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This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life.
List of contents
1 Capitalist Mobilities, Sharing Mobilities and the Need for Reconfiguring the Everyday 2 Empirical Introduction: Investigating Community Carsharing 3 Reconstituting Automobility: Changing the Meanings of the Car and (Auto)Mobility 4 Re-Embedding Automobility: Ecological Critique and Counterhegemonic Practice Interlude: The Collective and Organizational Character of Everyday Life 5 "We Do It Together for Us": Community, Collective Identity and Social Re-Embedding 6 Commoning Mobility: Community Carsharing and Changing Ownership 7 Community Carsharing and the Social-Ecological Mobility Transition
About the author
Luca Nitschke completed his Ph.D. at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and Nürtingen-Geislingen University as a member of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, located at the Chair for Urban Structure and Transport Planning at the Technical University of Munich. He works at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt. His research interests lie in the relationship between mobilities practices, capitalism and processes of change.
He studied Environmental Sciences in Bielefeld and Environmental Studies in Barcelona, Aveiro, Aalborg and New York City, and he is a founding member of the Center for Emancipatory Technology (ZET), Basel.
Summary
This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life.
