Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Associate Professor in Sustainable Mobilities at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and science and technology studies which she has been using to investigate praxes of mobilities and their significance for (future) cities. She is the co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network, and the co-founder and co-editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis). She is the author of the book Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom. 　 Sven Kesselring is a Research Professor in Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities and the director of the Master of Science program Sustainable Mobilities at Nüertingen-Geislingen University (NGU), Germany. His research focuses on the sociology of (auto)mobiles, social theory, and the impact of technology and digitalization on everyday and professional lives. He is the founder and co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network and co-director of the joint PhD program Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Cultures of TU Munich and NGU. He is co-founder and co-editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities (Taylor & Francis) and Studies in Mobility and Transport at Springer VS. He has edited several books including Aeromobilities (with Saulo Cwerner and John Urry).

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Preface

Networked Urban Mobilities

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Sven Kesselring

Globalizing Networked Urbanism: Entanglement of Elite and Subaltern Mobilities

Mimi Sheller

Mobile ‘Pseudonymous Strangers’: How Chance Encounters Constitute Sociality in Digitally Augmented and Location-Aware Urban Public Places

Christian Licoppe

The Worlds of Offshoring

John Urry

Networked Urbanism and Disaster

Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Katrina Petersen, and Rachel Oliphant

Vertical Mobilities: Confronting the Politics of Elevators in Tall Buildings and Ultra-Deep Mining

Stephen Graham

Mobilities Futures

Vincent Kaufmann

Performing or Deconstructing the Mobile Subject? Linking Mobility Concepts, Research Designs, and Methods

Katharina Manderscheid

Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Perspective

Ulrich Beck

Index