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The "Macron buses," a low-cost mode of transportation put to the test of sustainability and desirability

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Local policies of the mobility transition. The case of Belfort-Montbéliard

Internships abroad: what benefits for students in Alsace?

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NEO-NOMADS : A LIFESTYLE OF THE FUTURE ?

Ferjeux van der Stigghel

CIRCULATORY LIVES IN WESTERN INDIA

Ishan Tankha

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Swann Thommen

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A CHINESE VIEW OF 50 YEARS OF ACCELERATION

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Kevin Anderson

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Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

Living a maximum of 30 minutes from work: the hypothesis of a "coherent city"

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

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The Bicycle System

Frédéric Héran

The bicycle system refers to all the facilities, materials, services, regulations, information and skills [...]

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Mobilization

Sylvie Landriève, Dominic Villeneuve, Vincent Kaufmann, Christophe Gay

Mobilization is the action by which individuals are called upon to gather in the public space for a concerted [...]

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Bauman (Zygmunt)

Javier Caletrío

Zygmunt Bauman (1925 - 2017) was one of the greatest social theorists and public intellectuals of the late [...]

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Automobile dependence Symptoms, analyses, diagnosis, treatment, by Gabriel Dupuy (1999)

Caroline Gallez

La Mondialisation par le bas

Lamia Missaoui

The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

Javier Caletrío

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The self-driving car, a niche market or a true revolution?

By Christophe Gay and Sylvie Landriève, co-directors of Mobile Lives Forum

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The flying less movement

Javier Caletrio

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Arve Hansen

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Matias Dewey, Katherine Walker, Sarah Pabst

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Bicycle Utopias: Fast and slow cycling futures

Begin : Tuesday 19 February 2019
End : Tuesday 19 February 2019

Reinventing Mobilities and Borders: Cross-disciplinary Conversations

Begin : Thursday 21 February 2019
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Bicycle Utopias: Fast and slow cycling futures

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Start date : 19 February 2019 13:00
End date : 19 February 2019 14:00
Where : Lancaster | Royaume-Uni
Hosted by : CeMoRe

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https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/event/bicycle-utopias-fast-and-slow-cycling-futures-cosmin-popan-guest-presentation/

This presentation investigates how notions of speed and fast cycling located at the forefront of recent ‘cycle boom’ are entangled with visions of innovative mobilities and urban sustainability. The contemporary institutionally-driven push for cycling stems from concerns regarding health, pollution or global warming as well as from efforts to fight congestion, support urban regeneration and put economies back on track. Faster and seamless cycling mobilities are thus framed as innovations that keep our cities on the move while implicitly assisting their economic growth. The presentation uses a historical lens to problematise current and past discourses, practices and policies on cycling, speed and innovation while advancing slowness and a slow cycling utopia as a heuristic framework to reconsider cycling futures. It uses discourse analysis of past and present cultural representations of cycling, as well as analysis of policy documents to reveal power relations and question the underlying assumptions in currently trending visions of cycling. Two policy areas where cycling speed legitimises the ideology of economic growth are examined: the transport policies in London and the British cycling economy. Science-fiction literature, graphic novels and other artistic representations are alternatively used to suggest that slow cycling futures are equally possible. They are an invitation to imagine and outline alternatives to the current narratives and practices of speed embedded in late capitalist societies.

Dr Cosmin Popan is a Sociologist at Manchester Metropolitan University. His areas of interest are: mobility justice, sensuous and embodied geographies, political ecology, utopianism. He is the author of the book ‘Bicycle Utopias. Imagining Fast and Slow Cycling Futures’ (Routledge 2019). Cosmin is part of the Support Committee for Cycling and Society Symposia (http://www.cyclingandsociety.org/).

We will be meeting 1-2pm (Bowland Seminar Room 8) for a 45 minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of questions. Attendance is free, but we would like to ask you to confirm your interest by registering here.

Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and utopian studies (Levitas 2010, 2013), this book imagines a slow bicycle system as a necessary means to achieving more sustainable mobility futures.

The imagination of a slow bicycle system is done in three ways:

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