Sharing Mobilities: New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society

Sharing Mobilities explores the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures, posing challenges and opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. It presents radical manifestations of sharing capacities in diverse countries and encourages theory-led sociological research.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Sharing Mobilities delves into the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures, at the crossroads of physical and virtual capacity, access to people, goods, ideas, and services. This book presents fundamental challenges and opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. The future of new collaborative forms of consumption and sharing will play a pivotal role in organizing everyday life and business. Sharing Mobilities extends beyond mere transportation and encompasses its diverse impacts on society and the environment, necessitating thorough theory-led sociological research. Spanning across a wide global range, the contributors present radical manifestations of sharing capacities across diverse countries, including Germany, Denmark, Japan, and Vietnam. Mobility is a highly relevant and urgent phenomenon, both socially and politically, urging scholars to explore open questions from the perspective of the mobilities turn. This collection offers state-of-the-art theory-based articles with applied perspectives, making it an ideal read for scholars in social science, mobility, transportation, and the sharing economy. Sociologists, geographers, economists, urban governance researchers, and research students alike will find this book of interest.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032474687