Public Transport as Contested Space

Jason Finch is Associate Professor in English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of books including Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and co-editor of Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021). Louise Sträuli is a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles and in the Studies of Culture Programme at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research focuses on experiences and practices of daily mobility in urban areas and related socio-spatial inequalities. Tauri Tuvikene is Professor of Urban Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is an author and co-editor of three edited collections with three more forthcoming, including Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (2019), Decolonial Approaches to Urban Transport (2020) and Language and Space (2020). Tonio Weicker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. His research focuses on social inequalities caused by urban transport modernisation policies in Central and Eastern European countries. Wladimir Sgibnev is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany. He has co-edited collections on post-socialist urban infrastructures and on polarisation and peripheralisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, and authored book chapters and articles appearing in Antipode, Transport Geography, or the Journal of Transport History. Wojciech Keblowski is a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the editor of collections in leading journals of urban and transport studies, including Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Transport Geography, and Geoforum. He has published in Urban Geography, Environment and Planning C, and Transportation.

Introduction
Section 1: Life on Public Transport: Historical and Cultural Development
Section 2: Unexpected Encounters, Diverse Publics
Section 3: Official Control and Civil Awareness: Regulation and Contestation
Section 4: Human and Non-Human Interaction: Materialities
Section 6: Commentaries
Bibliography
Index