Malene Freudendal‐pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 167971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malene Freudendal‐pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malene |
| FAMILY NAME | Freudendal‐pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5140-701X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Geographical Proximity and Community Health Centres
The Danish healthcare system has transitioned from a decentralised municipal hospital model to a centralised structure dominated by large, specialised hospitals. While this shift has improved efficiency and healthcare quality in some respects, it has also created challenges in terms of accessibility, patient mobility, and sustainability. Community health centres represent a strategic response to these issues by decentralising essential healthcare…
Institutional material arrangements
Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements. Furthermore, consumer studies informed by theories of practice include a growing body of work which focuses on how supplier and professional practices shape everyday practices which involve consumption. With this foundation in practice theory, the article combines existing understandings of stabilisation of practices into a sho…
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Obituary
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice
Who we are and how we ask questions shape qualitative researchers’ material and influence the understanding and intelligibility we attach to different mobility experiences. Our normativity and social positions have implications for the representation of people and places. In this way, methodological decisions are interlinked with the production and reproduction of mobility injustice and epistemic injustice. With its starting point in reflexive me…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Urban mobility injustice and imagined sociospatial differences in cities
Cities today are confronted with pressing issues of mobilities - not only concerning greener movement but also more just movement. This article explores the physical and imaginary aspects of urban mobility injustice and its (re)production through a study of two neighbourhoods in Copenhagen. It examines the interplay between city dwellers' experiences of (im)mobility and the social and spatial structure of neighbourhoods that shape and are simulta…
Pandemic Detours or New Sustainable Pathways? Post-pandemic Mobility Futures in Danish Cities
When mobility normality breaks down, new futures can emerge. This paper explores COVID-19 disruptions of everyday mobility in Danish cities and new emerging pathways toward less carbon-intensive mobility futures in the light of the mobile risk society and practice theory. It uses a stakeholder workshop with public transport providers as empirical outset to start conceptualizing new discussions that have emerged in the wake of COVID-19. Through fo…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
Making Mobilities Matter
Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society and critiques the technocratic views that still dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, it examines how contemporary communiti…
Searching for urban mobilities futures. Methodological innovation in the light of Covid-19
What is the urban without physical mobilities? Covid-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society
Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colle…
Mobilities and Utopias
What does utopian thinking have to offer students and scholars of mobility? Could ‘mobile utopias’ assist us in envisioning futures – including those of mobility – differently? Do utopias provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between mobile societies and lives and the environments against which these are formed? By providing different ways of reading and arguing within different theoretical frameworks and doing so in relation t…
Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations
The sharing economy in general and the increasing number of sharing services in mobilities in particular stand, in many ways, for a phenomenon which is somehow bulky and unwieldy for classical economic theory. Within social sciences, these new practices of sharing rather than owning have been labelled in different ways highlighting distinctive characteristics of what sharing mobilities might mean for different people and networks. A common charac…
Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities
The mobilities paradigm has, during the last decade, proven its usefulness in investigating how the socio-material mobilities of modern societies have transformed fundamental aspects of social inte
A conversation on architecture and mobilities
Tina SaabyJesper PaghChief City Architect of CopenhagenCEO The Danish Association of ArchitectsHer responsibility is to help define architectural guidelines and visions in developing the city based
Mobilities, Futures & the City
The future of cities and regions will be strongly shaped by the mobilities of people, goods, modes of transport, waste and information. In many ways, the ‘why and ‘for what’ often get lost in discourses on planning and designing mobilities. The predominant planning paradigm still conceptualizes the future of cities and mobilities as a matter of rather more efficient technologies than of social cohesion, integration and connectivity. Sustainable m…
Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism
This article examines Copenhagen cyclists' emotional and "rational" stories about cycling in the city. Copenhagen is branded as a city of cyclists; nevertheless, the car still plays a dominant role in both policy and planning and thus everyday life. This shapes cyclists' stories as well as their praxis. This paper reveals how Copenhagen cyclists contest the role of the car but simultaneously support the automobile system that privileges cars over…
Cities and Mobilities
Geographies of Mobilities
Tim Cresswell and Peter Merriman (eds) Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, xii +276 pp., stg£50 hardback, (ISBN 978-0-7546-7316-3), ebook (978-1-4094-1782-8) This edited volume makes an important and wide-rang
Tør vi tro på bæredygtig mobilitet – Lefebvres mulige umuligheder
Henri Lefebvre var optimist, han troede på det mulige. Denne optimisme og stærke tro på, at en anderledes verden er mulig, er af afgørende betydning, hvis vi skal i mødekomme de udfordringer, som klimaforandringerne skaber. Det senmoderne hverdagsliv betyder mange muligheder og aktiviteter, der skal overvejes og gennemføres. I håndteringen af dette hverdagsliv er det ofte bilen, der kommer til at fungere som det, der virkeliggør disse muligheder.…
Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism
This article examines Copenhagen cyclists' emotional and "rational" stories about cycling in the city. Copenhagen is branded as a city of cyclists; nevertheless, the car still plays a dominant role in both policy and planning and thus everyday life. This shapes cyclists' stories as well as their praxis. This paper reveals how Copenhagen cyclists contest the role of the car but simultaneously support the automobile system that privileges cars over…
What is the urban without physical mobilities? Covid-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society
Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colle…
Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities
The mobilities paradigm has, during the last decade, proven its usefulness in investigating how the socio-material mobilities of modern societies have transformed fundamental aspects of social inte
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice
Who we are and how we ask questions shape qualitative researchers’ material and influence the understanding and intelligibility we attach to different mobility experiences. Our normativity and social positions have implications for the representation of people and places. In this way, methodological decisions are interlinked with the production and reproduction of mobility injustice and epistemic injustice. With its starting point in reflexive me…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Mobilities and Utopias
What does utopian thinking have to offer students and scholars of mobility? Could ‘mobile utopias’ assist us in envisioning futures – including those of mobility – differently? Do utopias provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between mobile societies and lives and the environments against which these are formed? By providing different ways of reading and arguing within different theoretical frameworks and doing so in relation t…
Mobilities, Futures & the City
The future of cities and regions will be strongly shaped by the mobilities of people, goods, modes of transport, waste and information. In many ways, the ‘why and ‘for what’ often get lost in discourses on planning and designing mobilities. The predominant planning paradigm still conceptualizes the future of cities and mobilities as a matter of rather more efficient technologies than of social cohesion, integration and connectivity. Sustainable m…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations
The sharing economy in general and the increasing number of sharing services in mobilities in particular stand, in many ways, for a phenomenon which is somehow bulky and unwieldy for classical economic theory. Within social sciences, these new practices of sharing rather than owning have been labelled in different ways highlighting distinctive characteristics of what sharing mobilities might mean for different people and networks. A common charac…
Urban mobility injustice and imagined sociospatial differences in cities
Cities today are confronted with pressing issues of mobilities - not only concerning greener movement but also more just movement. This article explores the physical and imaginary aspects of urban mobility injustice and its (re)production through a study of two neighbourhoods in Copenhagen. It examines the interplay between city dwellers' experiences of (im)mobility and the social and spatial structure of neighbourhoods that shape and are simulta…
Making Mobilities Matter
Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society and critiques the technocratic views that still dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, it examines how contemporary communiti…
Cities and Mobilities
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
A conversation on architecture and mobilities
Tina SaabyJesper PaghChief City Architect of CopenhagenCEO The Danish Association of ArchitectsHer responsibility is to help define architectural guidelines and visions in developing the city based
Tør vi tro på bæredygtig mobilitet – Lefebvres mulige umuligheder
Henri Lefebvre var optimist, han troede på det mulige. Denne optimisme og stærke tro på, at en anderledes verden er mulig, er af afgørende betydning, hvis vi skal i mødekomme de udfordringer, som klimaforandringerne skaber. Det senmoderne hverdagsliv betyder mange muligheder og aktiviteter, der skal overvejes og gennemføres. I håndteringen af dette hverdagsliv er det ofte bilen, der kommer til at fungere som det, der virkeliggør disse muligheder.…
Geographies of Mobilities
Tim Cresswell and Peter Merriman (eds) Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, xii +276 pp., stg£50 hardback, (ISBN 978-0-7546-7316-3), ebook (978-1-4094-1782-8) This edited volume makes an important and wide-rang
Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism
This article examines Copenhagen cyclists' emotional and "rational" stories about cycling in the city. Copenhagen is branded as a city of cyclists; nevertheless, the car still plays a dominant role in both policy and planning and thus everyday life. This shapes cyclists' stories as well as their praxis. This paper reveals how Copenhagen cyclists contest the role of the car but simultaneously support the automobile system that privileges cars over…
Cities and Mobilities
Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities
The mobilities paradigm has, during the last decade, proven its usefulness in investigating how the socio-material mobilities of modern societies have transformed fundamental aspects of social inte
A conversation on architecture and mobilities
Tina SaabyJesper PaghChief City Architect of CopenhagenCEO The Danish Association of ArchitectsHer responsibility is to help define architectural guidelines and visions in developing the city based
Mobilities, Futures & the City
The future of cities and regions will be strongly shaped by the mobilities of people, goods, modes of transport, waste and information. In many ways, the ‘why and ‘for what’ often get lost in discourses on planning and designing mobilities. The predominant planning paradigm still conceptualizes the future of cities and mobilities as a matter of rather more efficient technologies than of social cohesion, integration and connectivity. Sustainable m…
Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations
The sharing economy in general and the increasing number of sharing services in mobilities in particular stand, in many ways, for a phenomenon which is somehow bulky and unwieldy for classical economic theory. Within social sciences, these new practices of sharing rather than owning have been labelled in different ways highlighting distinctive characteristics of what sharing mobilities might mean for different people and networks. A common charac…
Mobilities and Utopias
What does utopian thinking have to offer students and scholars of mobility? Could ‘mobile utopias’ assist us in envisioning futures – including those of mobility – differently? Do utopias provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between mobile societies and lives and the environments against which these are formed? By providing different ways of reading and arguing within different theoretical frameworks and doing so in relation t…
Searching for urban mobilities futures. Methodological innovation in the light of Covid-19
What is the urban without physical mobilities? Covid-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society
Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colle…
Pandemic Detours or New Sustainable Pathways? Post-pandemic Mobility Futures in Danish Cities
When mobility normality breaks down, new futures can emerge. This paper explores COVID-19 disruptions of everyday mobility in Danish cities and new emerging pathways toward less carbon-intensive mobility futures in the light of the mobile risk society and practice theory. It uses a stakeholder workshop with public transport providers as empirical outset to start conceptualizing new discussions that have emerged in the wake of COVID-19. Through fo…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
Making Mobilities Matter
Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society and critiques the technocratic views that still dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, it examines how contemporary communiti…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Urban mobility injustice and imagined sociospatial differences in cities
Cities today are confronted with pressing issues of mobilities - not only concerning greener movement but also more just movement. This article explores the physical and imaginary aspects of urban mobility injustice and its (re)production through a study of two neighbourhoods in Copenhagen. It examines the interplay between city dwellers' experiences of (im)mobility and the social and spatial structure of neighbourhoods that shape and are simulta…
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice
Who we are and how we ask questions shape qualitative researchers’ material and influence the understanding and intelligibility we attach to different mobility experiences. Our normativity and social positions have implications for the representation of people and places. In this way, methodological decisions are interlinked with the production and reproduction of mobility injustice and epistemic injustice. With its starting point in reflexive me…
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Obituary
Geographical Proximity and Community Health Centres
The Danish healthcare system has transitioned from a decentralised municipal hospital model to a centralised structure dominated by large, specialised hospitals. While this shift has improved efficiency and healthcare quality in some respects, it has also created challenges in terms of accessibility, patient mobility, and sustainability. Community health centres represent a strategic response to these issues by decentralising essential healthcare…
Institutional material arrangements
Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements. Furthermore, consumer studies informed by theories of practice include a growing body of work which focuses on how supplier and professional practices shape everyday practices which involve consumption. With this foundation in practice theory, the article combines existing understandings of stabilisation of practices into a sho…
Sociology (15 works) · Mobilities (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Futures contract (4 works) · Art (3 works)