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Do environmental values challenge mobility practices?

Yoann Demoli | Sociologist03 April 2023

How much does ecological awareness shape our travel practices by car, train and plane? Analysing environmental values alongside travel habits reveals a complex reality. From the car as a neglected part of the ecological transition to the myth of the…

Thematics : Lifestyles

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No train no gain

20 December 2022

Forum Vies Mobiles | Professionnel-le

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Thinking from and with mobilities through the notion of dwelling

19 December 2022

Mathis Stock | Geographer

Using the concept of dwelling, Mathis Stock proposes to approach mobility both through travel and through the relationship of people to the different places that give rhythm to their lives. The result is an approach that is more in line with contemporary lifestyles, characterised by the multiplication of places where daily life takes place , long-distance tourism and permanent connectivity. By linking movements and places with the question of lifestyles and the meaning that individuals give to their movements, dwelling sheds new light on our understanding of mobility practices.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

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Did Covid cause public transport to grind to a halt?

30 December 2021

Annelise Avril, David Henny |

In March 2020, the number of passengers on French public transport dropped by 90%, with a similar decline observed in Switzerland. With the lockdowns now over and the development of telework radically changing the commuting habits of a large part of the population, how is public transport emerging from the pandemic? Will public transport survive precisely when it is most needed for the ecological transition? Annelise Avril, Director of Marketing, Innovation, New Mobilities for the Keolis group, and David Henny, head of passenger service planning at the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), answered our questions.

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The effect of gender on safe and sustainable mobility

27 June 2022

Marie-Axelle Granié | Director of Research

It is known that 3 out of 4 road deaths are men. But do we know that this figure is the same in every country in the world, for all age groups, for pedestrians as well as motorists, or even that 96% of those killed under the age of 18 are boys? How can these figures be explained? Beyond biological explanations, Marie-Axelle Granié highlights the importance of gender roles, suggests routes for change and reveals the mistakes to avoid.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

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Understanding the political economy of car dependence

01 March 2022

Giulio Mattioli | Researcher in Sustainable Transport

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the car is at the heart of ecological transition strategies. In order to understand its dominant role and envisage its future, supporters and detractors alike question the demand for cars: citizens have an insatiable desire for them, with a preference for large and powerful vehicles that appear safe to drivers. However, the supply side, i.e. the car industry and the political economy that supports it, has long been overlooked in research. Giulio Mattioli proposes to take a closer look at it in order to revisit our dependence on the car.

Thematics : Policies

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Mobility trajectories: a key notion for conceptualizing and shaping changes in the way people travel

26 August 2020

Laurent Cailly, Marie Huyghe, Nicolas Oppenchaim |

How do we come to change travel modes during our lifetime? What explains why we keep some mobility practices while we abandon others? Marie Huyghe, Nicolas Oppenchaim and Laurent Cailly develop the concept of mobility trajectory to better understand the way in which people go back and forth between different modes according to their residential, professional and family trajectories, but also with regards to their experience of mobility, to various disruptions, to skills that they integrate over the course of their experiences, and also to the different phases of reflexivity that play a part in behavioral changes. To account for the interactions between these different elements, they imagined a graphic representation that highlights the way in which an individual’s mobility trajectory is constructed.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

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From the street to the planet: can mobility justice unite our diverse struggles?

26 November 2019

Mimi Sheller | Sociologue

What is mobility justice? This is the question that Mimi Sheller addresses, from the observation that if the right to mobility is a freedom to conquer, its limits are also the root of many inequalities, whether at the level of the street or on a global scale. The urban crisis, with its inequalities in terms of access to the city's transport and amenities, the migrant crisis with its population movements and the walls that contain them, the environmental crisis with the exploitation by rich countries of the raw materials of poor countries: all these issues find a common denominator in this continuous struggle for mobility. Why not conceive of mobility as a shared resource to be managed democratically?

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

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Mobility in China from 1949 to the present day

13 November 2019

Jean-Philippe Béja | Researcher

For the communist regime that established itself in Beijing in 1949, mobility was synonymous with disorder. Once in power, the Party divided the population into classes to better control it: the members of the “exploiting classes” were subject to many restrictions, while the “red” classes were tasked with monitoring them. But by 1958, State control was widespread and travel was limited for all. Yet, mobility gradually became part of Chinese people’s daily lives: corporate executives would fly to their hometown on weekends; the middle classes would drive to their country homes; private cars replaced bicycles in the villages. However, far from signalling the end of State control, this apparent liberation came with unparalleled surveillance. Jean-Philippe Beja revisits the history of 70 years of emancipation under control.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

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The future of aviation

29 October 2019

Maurie Cohen | Researcher

Personal air mobility seems to be moving out of the realm of science fiction and into reality, with the development of light aircrafts for private, even daily use and intended for an increasingly wide audience. Maurie Cohen, an expert in sustainability, questions this practice with regards to its environmental impact, which will surely be considerable. By what means can we overcome this contradiction between the need to ensure the planet’s future and the inexorable development of personal air mobility?

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

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The automobile city

17 September 2019

Caroline Gallez | Urban planner

As early as the 1920s, traffic congestion and road safety in cities led to the emergence of a new expertise that became progressively institutionalized as a scientific discipline called “traffic engineering.” By systematically banking on the growth of automobility, the models that guide it have become self-fulfilling. Cars have gone hand in hand with urban extension, shaping even housing policies that favor the emergence of peri-urban spaces organized around road infrastructure. However, congestion and insecurity have not disappeared, and are now joined by an environmental emergency that calls into question the viability of the whole system. Is the auto city living its final days?

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

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Being a woman in the city, or the art of avoidance

18 June 2019

Anne Jarrigeon | Anthropologue

Anne Jarrigeon has studied the ways in which women have learned to deploy internalized knowledge to keep strangers at bay in everyday life, in cities that impose an image of hyper-availability. Being a mobile woman in urban space is often about how to avoid the male gaze, of men themselves, and from billboards.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

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The injunction to mobility

16 May 2019

Christophe Mincke | lawyer and sociologist

Christophe Mincke, who studied the emergence of mobility ideology in La société sans répit (2019, La Sorbonne), investigates the idea of mobility as a social injunction. In a society where mobility has become an end in itself, where being constantly in motion is the norm, what room is left for each individual’s aspirations? And, finally, is the ultramobility of the 21st century a source of liberation or constraint?

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