Alternative (Im)Mobilities

Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira is a Professor at the Escola de Comunicação – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ), Brazil. Her research focuses on the interconnections between (im)mobility, communication, advertising, and marketing. She is currently a member of two research groups, Mobilities, Theory, Topics and Methods (MTTM) and The Rhetoric of the Consumption (ReC).. She holds a Ph.D. Degree in History, Politics and Culture from the Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (Cpdoc- FGV RJ), Brazil and a master’s degree in Social Communication from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC Rio), Brazil.

Introduction: Alternative (im)mobilities 1. When public health policies fail: Community management in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Paraisópolis, São Paulo 2. An alternative for whom? Buenos Aires’ school commuting and the "bicycle boom" in pandemic time 3. Cyclelogistics & uberization: Challenges and transformative actions to improve delivery cyclists' work conditions 4. Caring Cities: The urgent concerns after apparent immobility in southern cities 5. Gendered perspectives in mobility and safety in public transport. The case of motorcycle taxis (boda boda) in Kisumu City, Kenya 6. Informal mobility in the Alemão Complex, Rio de Janeiro 7. Peripheries on the move: New urban grammars and epistemic disputes over center-periphery borders in São Paulo 8. Rearrangements and trajectories: Italian-Brazilian ice-cream parlor workers in Germany in Covid-19 times 9. Favela virtual tour: Alternative mobilities in favela tourism during Covid-19 pandemic 10. After the #stayhome, "live like a local": Towards alternative urban tourism mobilities?