(Un)equal footing

Otherings and orderings of urban mobility

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10248980
AutoresMyron Emanuel (0000-0001-6867-5790, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, autor de correspondencia), D Normark (0000-0002-3509-097X, Uppsala University)
Año2023
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas165-182
Fecha de publicación2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00225266231189332
OpenAlexW4385318187
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas31

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 similar versions of marginalisation of walking. Discursive othering (vocabularies, rules, etc.) and material ordering (through designs, etc.) of pedestrians combined to make walking the “second” mobility and produced street modernities. Using the articles as interpretative inspiration, we claim that in the twentieth century, what we refer to as mechanical equality grew in importance at the expense of embodied equality. We propose that un-marginalising walking requires the revaluation of – and hence a more thorough understanding of – the bodily qualities and mundane practices of walking

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