1. Veille éditoriale

Retrouvez dans cette rubrique les ouvrages parus récemment sur la mobilité. Pour nous signaler la parution de livres francophones, merci de contacter Thomas Evariste, pour les livres anglophones, hispanophones ou lusophones merci de contacter Javier Caletrio.

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

Harvard University Press

États-Unis

10/2023

Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. [...]

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If Cars Could Walk Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Edited by Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene

Bergham

Royaume-Uni

07/2023

In the last 25 years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in post-socialist cities. [...]

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Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities

Edited by Annelies Zoomers, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Guus Van Westen

Edward Elgar Publishing

07/2023

This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. [...]

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Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

David Schley

University of Chicago Press

États-Unis

06/2023

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. [...]

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The Great American Transit Disaster A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

University of Chicago Press

États-Unis

06/2023

Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. [...]

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Traffication. How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It

Paul Donald

Pelagic Publishing

Royaume-Uni

05/2023

Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. [...]

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Voitures, Fake or not ? Concilier mobilité et neutralité carbone sans fake news : moteur électrique vs moteur thermique, transition énergétique, dépendance à la voiture individuelle

Aurélien Bigo et Isabelle Brokman

Tana éditions

France

05/2023

2035 signera la fin de vente de la voiture thermique. Le réchauffement climatique l’impose : nous devons cesser d’émettre des gaz à effet de serre en brûlant du pétrole pour circuler. [...]

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Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Kenda Mutongi

University of Chicago Press

États-Unis

05/2023

Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus—colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. [...]

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Driving in Palestine التحرّك في فلسطين

Rehab Nazzal رحاب نزال

04/2023

During the past seven decades, Palestine has been sealed from the Arab world and shattered into fragmented and coded areas: 1948 area, 1967 area, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and A, B and C areas within the West Bank. [...]

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Moves - Spaces - Places The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montreal. An Ethnography

Lisa Johnson

Columbia University Press

États-Unis

02/2023

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. [...]

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