Community Carsharing and theSocial-Ecological Mobility Transition

This book explores how community carsharing practices challenge capitalist mobilities and reconfigure everyday mobility. It conducts an empirical study in rural regions around Munich, Germany, and reveals how carsharing contributes to the emergence of alternative automobile practices, meanings, identities, and subjectivities. It also explores the embedding of automobility into its ecological context, the connection of function and community in practices of community carsharing, and the changing of ownership relations through a process of commoning mobility. The book highlights the role of everyday resistance, re-embedding, and commoning in facilitating the dissemination of an alternative mobility culture and promoting a social-ecological mobility transition.

Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the profound impact of community carsharing practices on everyday mobility, presenting a compelling argument that these practices actively challenge and redefine hegemonic automobility norms. Through a meticulous empirical exploration of community carsharing in the rural regions surrounding Munich, Germany, the author unveils how these practices not only contribute to the emergence of alternative automobile practices but also shape new meanings, identities, and subjectivities. Moreover, the book delves into the intricate relationship between automobility and its ecological context, exploring how community carsharing practices intertwine functionality and community, ultimately altering ownership relations through a process of commoning mobility. This transformative reconfiguration of everyday automobility unfolds through processes of everyday resistance, re-embedding, and commoning, culminating in the emergence of an alternative mobility culture that fosters the dissemination of an alternative common sense of community carsharing.

This book offers valuable insights into carsharing in rural contexts and serves as a remarkable example of how carsharing, particularly in the context of sharing mobilities, can play a pivotal role in facilitating a social-ecological mobility transition. Scholars and practitioners engaged in the fields of mobility studies and mobilities will find this work of utmost interest and significance.

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032205885