D Normark
Biographic Data
| ID | 38772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Normark |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Normark |
| SIGNATURE | NORMARK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3509-097X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Experimental Logics of Street Transformations
Street experiments are proliferating in cities worldwide and have emerged as an approach to transform urban mobility and public space. Previous research attests to the broad spectrum of street experimentation and its variety of stakeholders, aims, methods, and impacts. In this article, we probe this multi‐faceted nature through a study of the landscape of street experimentation as it evolved in one city—Stockholm, Sweden—over a 10‐year period (20…
Children of the Underground
During the late 1960s and 1970s, traffic-planners across Europe adopted an ideology of traffic separation–as the optimal way to address traffic hazards and risks. According to this ideology, pedestrian underpasses allowed cars to cross paths with pedestrians without conflict or interruption. Around 1970, the City of Copenhagen made large investments but these investments dwindled towards the end of the 1970s and underpasses diminished. This paper…
The Guild and the Laboratory
This article engages with scholarship on sensory history, techno-science, and the political economy of taste, illustrating how flavor evaluation became an industrialized, professionalized practice through a case study of Stockholms bryggerier, a Swedish brewer. Through these shifts, the brewing industry redefined taste as a techno-scientific concern, reshaping professional roles and positioning sensory assessment as a critical site of negotiation…
(Un)equal footing
This special issue brings together articles on the history of walking in European cities and urban hinterlands since the late nineteenth century. Taken together, they reveal how the conditions to walk changed as cities and streets were rethought and rebuilt for motorised mobility, and they highlight the role of labelling and defining pedestrians in order to legitimise change. The anticipation and making of car cities entailed locally specific yet…
Introduction to the Special Section
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Recreational mobility on a busy street
This paper studies recreational mobility as it unfolds as an integral part of the heterogeneity of practices staged in front of a camera on a busy street in Stockholm, Sweden. By analyzing the production- and recognition-work of ‘doing-jogging/dog-walking-in-the-city’ we argue that recreational mobility accomplishes something more than walking in these settings. In the modern layout of a condensed city, mobility is prioritized due to its utility.…
Ontologies on collision course
Is mobility ontologically different than transport? This essay contributes to this contentious question by looking at the frictions and failures of merging intelligent transport systems (ITS) with mobile information and communication technologies (mobile-ICT). Adopting a methodological approach from science and technology studies (STS), which focus on (political) ontologies, enables us to follow the ordering practices and constituent elements par…
Funny bikes
This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristics of people; it takes into account the pragmatic and situated dimension and, thus, allows a generalised symmetry. From there, visual methods enable us to submit the collected material to a double treatment of a …
Mundane intermodality
Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at a bike rental station. We argue that the bike-sharing service is a pivotal device that enables its users to transform (to re-configure from pedestrians to cyclists and vice versa), hence creating intermodality.…
Bicycles, cyclists and loads
This article reports on a video-based analysis of bicycling practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. It is based on actor-network theory, an approach that studies human and non-human entities and their contributions to social action equally. The paper examines bicycles and their interactions with cyclists and loads in the transport of people and goods. Accordingly, this paper presents methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions to the st…
The Future of Mobilities’ . Reflections on the joint cosmobilities/T2M conference 2015 in Caserta/ Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
‘The Future of Mobilities’. Reflections on the joint Cosmobilities/T2M conference 2015 in Caserta/ Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
Fyrkantifieringen av handeln
This article addresses the squarification of Swedish retailing in the 1960- and 1970’s through an analysis of a Swedish packaging magazine. Starting with the geometric shape (round, triangular or square) of and corresponding cell (cuboids, cubes, cones, pyramids or cylinders) of milk packages we analyze how the square shape gradually became dominant. The transformation was not limited to the package itself, but included products, store layouts, h…
Managing Walking Together
There are a number of mundane technologies which shape pedestrian mobility such as pavements, corridors and stairs. In this paper we focus on the practical implications revolving doors as a technology have for the social organisation of people walking together. Drawing upon video recordings we analyse the observable intersubjective resources produced and used by members of the setting when walking through doors, and the interaction between format…
Laying Waste Together
This article examines how a shared object—trash—is managed through a field study of its generation and disposal within a public setting. Collaboration around trash, examining ownership, accountability, shared responsibility, and social control over acceptable behavior, is investigated and discussed. An analysis to explore the production of public trash through everyday social practices rather than through reference to theory is developed, arguing…
Public Road Signs as Intermediate Interaction
This article reports a study of the abundant practice among people who live along roads to communicate with passing drivers by making and mounting public road signs. These signs can be seen as a complement, parallel, or second to official signs posted by road authorities. The article focuses specifically on how public road signs support different forms of communities, the practical work of enhancing readability for passing drivers, and the adopti…
Tending to Mobility
This paper reports a study of ongoing social activities at a petrol station. Petrol stations constitute a nexus for mobility. Through ethnographic observations the author tests how the continuous flow of vehicles, commodities, money, and people are sustained and made accountable. The fieldwork demonstrates that, despite its transitory character, the petrol station offers a wide spectrum of 'duration of stay'. The station was used while being-on-t…
Managing Walking Together
There are a number of mundane technologies which shape pedestrian mobility such as pavements, corridors and stairs. In this paper we focus on the practical implications revolving doors as a technology have for the social organisation of people walking together. Drawing upon video recordings we analyse the observable intersubjective resources produced and used by members of the setting when walking through doors, and the interaction between format…
Tending to Mobility
This paper reports a study of ongoing social activities at a petrol station. Petrol stations constitute a nexus for mobility. Through ethnographic observations the author tests how the continuous flow of vehicles, commodities, money, and people are sustained and made accountable. The fieldwork demonstrates that, despite its transitory character, the petrol station offers a wide spectrum of 'duration of stay'. The station was used while being-on-t…
Mundane intermodality
Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at a bike rental station. We argue that the bike-sharing service is a pivotal device that enables its users to transform (to re-configure from pedestrians to cyclists and vice versa), hence creating intermodality.…
Bicycles, cyclists and loads
This article reports on a video-based analysis of bicycling practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. It is based on actor-network theory, an approach that studies human and non-human entities and their contributions to social action equally. The paper examines bicycles and their interactions with cyclists and loads in the transport of people and goods. Accordingly, this paper presents methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions to the st…
Public Road Signs as Intermediate Interaction
This article reports a study of the abundant practice among people who live along roads to communicate with passing drivers by making and mounting public road signs. These signs can be seen as a complement, parallel, or second to official signs posted by road authorities. The article focuses specifically on how public road signs support different forms of communities, the practical work of enhancing readability for passing drivers, and the adopti…
Introduction to the Special Section
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Laying Waste Together
This article examines how a shared object—trash—is managed through a field study of its generation and disposal within a public setting. Collaboration around trash, examining ownership, accountability, shared responsibility, and social control over acceptable behavior, is investigated and discussed. An analysis to explore the production of public trash through everyday social practices rather than through reference to theory is developed, arguing…
Tending to Mobility
This paper reports a study of ongoing social activities at a petrol station. Petrol stations constitute a nexus for mobility. Through ethnographic observations the author tests how the continuous flow of vehicles, commodities, money, and people are sustained and made accountable. The fieldwork demonstrates that, despite its transitory character, the petrol station offers a wide spectrum of 'duration of stay'. The station was used while being-on-t…
Public Road Signs as Intermediate Interaction
This article reports a study of the abundant practice among people who live along roads to communicate with passing drivers by making and mounting public road signs. These signs can be seen as a complement, parallel, or second to official signs posted by road authorities. The article focuses specifically on how public road signs support different forms of communities, the practical work of enhancing readability for passing drivers, and the adopti…
Laying Waste Together
This article examines how a shared object—trash—is managed through a field study of its generation and disposal within a public setting. Collaboration around trash, examining ownership, accountability, shared responsibility, and social control over acceptable behavior, is investigated and discussed. An analysis to explore the production of public trash through everyday social practices rather than through reference to theory is developed, arguing…
Fyrkantifieringen av handeln
This article addresses the squarification of Swedish retailing in the 1960- and 1970’s through an analysis of a Swedish packaging magazine. Starting with the geometric shape (round, triangular or square) of and corresponding cell (cuboids, cubes, cones, pyramids or cylinders) of milk packages we analyze how the square shape gradually became dominant. The transformation was not limited to the package itself, but included products, store layouts, h…
Managing Walking Together
There are a number of mundane technologies which shape pedestrian mobility such as pavements, corridors and stairs. In this paper we focus on the practical implications revolving doors as a technology have for the social organisation of people walking together. Drawing upon video recordings we analyse the observable intersubjective resources produced and used by members of the setting when walking through doors, and the interaction between format…
The Future of Mobilities’ . Reflections on the joint cosmobilities/T2M conference 2015 in Caserta/ Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
‘The Future of Mobilities’. Reflections on the joint Cosmobilities/T2M conference 2015 in Caserta/ Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
Bicycles, cyclists and loads
This article reports on a video-based analysis of bicycling practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. It is based on actor-network theory, an approach that studies human and non-human entities and their contributions to social action equally. The paper examines bicycles and their interactions with cyclists and loads in the transport of people and goods. Accordingly, this paper presents methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions to the st…
Mundane intermodality
Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at a bike rental station. We argue that the bike-sharing service is a pivotal device that enables its users to transform (to re-configure from pedestrians to cyclists and vice versa), hence creating intermodality.…
Funny bikes
This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristics of people; it takes into account the pragmatic and situated dimension and, thus, allows a generalised symmetry. From there, visual methods enable us to submit the collected material to a double treatment of a …
Ontologies on collision course
Is mobility ontologically different than transport? This essay contributes to this contentious question by looking at the frictions and failures of merging intelligent transport systems (ITS) with mobile information and communication technologies (mobile-ICT). Adopting a methodological approach from science and technology studies (STS), which focus on (political) ontologies, enables us to follow the ordering practices and constituent elements par…
(Un)equal footing
This special issue brings together articles on the history of walking in European cities and urban hinterlands since the late nineteenth century. Taken together, they reveal how the conditions to walk changed as cities and streets were rethought and rebuilt for motorised mobility, and they highlight the role of labelling and defining pedestrians in order to legitimise change. The anticipation and making of car cities entailed locally specific yet…
Introduction to the Special Section
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Recreational mobility on a busy street
This paper studies recreational mobility as it unfolds as an integral part of the heterogeneity of practices staged in front of a camera on a busy street in Stockholm, Sweden. By analyzing the production- and recognition-work of ‘doing-jogging/dog-walking-in-the-city’ we argue that recreational mobility accomplishes something more than walking in these settings. In the modern layout of a condensed city, mobility is prioritized due to its utility.…
The Guild and the Laboratory
This article engages with scholarship on sensory history, techno-science, and the political economy of taste, illustrating how flavor evaluation became an industrialized, professionalized practice through a case study of Stockholms bryggerier, a Swedish brewer. Through these shifts, the brewing industry redefined taste as a techno-scientific concern, reshaping professional roles and positioning sensory assessment as a critical site of negotiation…
Experimental Logics of Street Transformations
Street experiments are proliferating in cities worldwide and have emerged as an approach to transform urban mobility and public space. Previous research attests to the broad spectrum of street experimentation and its variety of stakeholders, aims, methods, and impacts. In this article, we probe this multi‐faceted nature through a study of the landscape of street experimentation as it evolved in one city—Stockholm, Sweden—over a 10‐year period (20…
Children of the Underground
During the late 1960s and 1970s, traffic-planners across Europe adopted an ideology of traffic separation–as the optimal way to address traffic hazards and risks. According to this ideology, pedestrian underpasses allowed cars to cross paths with pedestrians without conflict or interruption. Around 1970, the City of Copenhagen made large investments but these investments dwindled towards the end of the 1970s and underpasses diminished. This paper…
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