Justin Spinney
Biographic Data
| ID | 220699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Spinney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinney |
| SIGNATURE | SPINNEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6050-7012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 652 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Obituary: Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Handbook of Travel Behaviour
This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive and diverse understanding of the determinants of travel behaviour, looking at the ways in which it can be better understood, modelled and forecasted. Dimitris Potoglou and Justin Spinney bring together an international range of esteemed academics who explore the origins of the field, research analysis methods, environmental considerations, and social factors. This title contains one or more Open Acc…
Valuing “Othered” Rationalities in the Smart City: Examining Children’s Cycling from a Justice Perspective
This article seeks to contribute to the intersection of children’s mobility (specifically cycling) by assessing the extent to which emerging socio-technical smart city systems accommodate children’s rationalities. In order to do so, it reviews literature on children’s mobility, cycling, and participation in design of smart solutions. Through this process, I highlight distributional injustice where children are marginalized in adult-centric cyclin…
The spatialisation of para-diplomacy: The role of regional power dynamics in the development and operation of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei (Taiwan)
To do or not to do: Practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises
This article contributes to an ongoing discussion regarding the ethics of online research involving children and young people (CYP) during crises. The paper critically reflects on our experience of designing, approving and conducting a multi-country study utilising an online diary to investigate how social, physical and virtual conditions shape and are shaped by CYP’s everyday experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reflections identify fou…
A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: The politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai's Dockless Public Bike Sharing Sector
Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai
This paper contributes to debates on urban governance and mobility through a case study of the transformation of public bike sharing schemes in Shanghai (China) from fixed/docked (PBSS 1.0) to flexible/dockless (PBSS 2.0). Based upon stakeholder interviews and observations between 2015 and 2017, we use the concept of a dispositive to foreground two related processes. The first is the reformulation of the governmental dispositive that coalesces ar…
(Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: The Production and Economisation of Cycling Culture in Pursuit of Accumulation
There have been recent calls in mobilities literature for greater engagement with how mobility regimes are shaped and governed at different scales. In relation to cycling-related mobilities scholarship, there are very few accounts situating cycling within broader bio-political and political–economic processes. This paper seeks to address this absence, situating contemporary formations of cycling culture within processes of capital accumulation an…
Are you being shared? Mobility, data and social relations in Shanghai’s Public Bike Sharing 2.0 sector
Starting in early 2016, a new wave of dockless ICT-based Public Bike Sharing Systems (PBSS 2.0) has grown rapidly in many Chinese cities and is now spreading globally. Whilst there is a growing literature on sharing and a substantial technical literature on the earlier breed of docked PBSS 1.0, there is no critical academic study of this new bike sharing phenomenon. This paper seeks to contribute to social scientific debates on sharing and mobili…
Fixing Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Cycling Policy and Practice in London as a Mode of Political–Economic and Biopolitical Governance
Academic interest in utility cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the efficacy of cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Yet with few exceptions, none of these accounts conceptualizes cycling as a mode of neoliberal governance through which circulation and quality of labor are improved. This article seeks to address this abs…
Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother
This paper is about the entanglements or mutually affecting engagements with the material world that occur in the course of trying to becoming mobile with a small baby. Drawing on a rigorous empirical base of 37 interviews with 20 families in East London, we analyse the relationships between discourses of parenting and the material practices of journey-making. Bringing together conceptual work on the new materialism and mobility studies, we advan…
Driving the ‘Starship Enterprise’ through London: Constructing the im/moral driver-citizen through HGV safety technology
Geographies of citizenship and everyday (im)mobility
Close encounters? Mobile methods, (post)phenomenology and affect
There has been a recent upsurge in mobilities research relating to embodied movement, and a corresponding interest in adapting methods to acquire data while on the move. At the same time, many of the questions being asked relate to non-representational aspects of movement, notably the sensory, emotional and affective. While approaches that attempt to enable the researcher to 'be, see and feel there' such as mobile video ethnography are becoming m…
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and Solutions
Brenda Boardman, London, Earthscan, 2010, 256 pp., £24.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781844077441 Brenda Boardman has been actively researching and campaigning to raise awareness of the state, causes, effects an
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
Alternative mobilities
Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency
David Thorpe, London, Earthscan, 2010, 192 pp., £34.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781844078769 The publication of Sustainable Home Refurbishment will be a welcome addition for project managers and self-builders
A Chance to Catch a Breath: Using Mobile Video Ethnography in Cycling Research
Under the rubric of transport much previous research on everyday mobility has focused on understanding the more representational and readily articulated aspects of everyday movement. By way of contrast, emergent theorisations of mobility suggest that an understanding of the less representational - those fleeting, ephemeral and often embodied and sensory aspects of movement - is vital if we are to fully understand why and how people move around. A…
Catching a Glimpse: The Value of Video in Evoking, Understanding and Representing the Practice of Cycling
Researchers seeking to understand how places, spaces and subjectivities are constituted in and through motion increasingly acknowledge the value of harnessing the material, social and affective context of motion itself; actively engaging movement in the creation of research knowledges. For certain highly mobile and physical practices such as cycling, attempting to research through ‘being there’ is crucial if we are to move beyond rationalised and…
Performing Resistance? Re-Reading Practices of Urban Cycling on London's South Bank
Despite a burgeoning literature on mobilities in general and cycling in particular as a transport, leisure, and political practice, there remains a lack of research on cycling in pedestrian public spaces. There is, however, a substantial body of literature in relation to skateboarding in public spaces which with few exceptions theorises it as resistant to preexisting dominant design codes and social norms. Using the example of London's South Bank…
Cycling the City: Movement, Meaning and Method
Conceptualisations of movement and mobility within geography are increasingly complicating reductive and sedentarist understandings that have tended to theorise mobility either as meaningless, or as the practical outcome of 'rational' decision makers. Until quite recently there has been a sedentarist bias in cultural geographic enquiry that has resulted in negative readings of mobility as insensate, polluting and harmful. Conversely, while transp…
A Place of Sense: A Kinaesthetic Ethnography of Cyclists on Mont Ventoux
In this paper I explore the notion that our movements in and through a place define our engagement with it and help to constitute it as a place. Concepts and concomitant interpretations of place as a 'situated' and contemplative experience have to date received much cultural geographical attention. In increasingly mobile societies, however, I argue that mobility should be central to the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the character …
A Place of Sense: A Kinaesthetic Ethnography of Cyclists on Mont Ventoux
In this paper I explore the notion that our movements in and through a place define our engagement with it and help to constitute it as a place. Concepts and concomitant interpretations of place as a 'situated' and contemplative experience have to date received much cultural geographical attention. In increasingly mobile societies, however, I argue that mobility should be central to the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the character …
A Chance to Catch a Breath: Using Mobile Video Ethnography in Cycling Research
Under the rubric of transport much previous research on everyday mobility has focused on understanding the more representational and readily articulated aspects of everyday movement. By way of contrast, emergent theorisations of mobility suggest that an understanding of the less representational - those fleeting, ephemeral and often embodied and sensory aspects of movement - is vital if we are to fully understand why and how people move around. A…
Cycling the City: Movement, Meaning and Method
Conceptualisations of movement and mobility within geography are increasingly complicating reductive and sedentarist understandings that have tended to theorise mobility either as meaningless, or as the practical outcome of 'rational' decision makers. Until quite recently there has been a sedentarist bias in cultural geographic enquiry that has resulted in negative readings of mobility as insensate, polluting and harmful. Conversely, while transp…
Close encounters? Mobile methods, (post)phenomenology and affect
There has been a recent upsurge in mobilities research relating to embodied movement, and a corresponding interest in adapting methods to acquire data while on the move. At the same time, many of the questions being asked relate to non-representational aspects of movement, notably the sensory, emotional and affective. While approaches that attempt to enable the researcher to 'be, see and feel there' such as mobile video ethnography are becoming m…
Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother
This paper is about the entanglements or mutually affecting engagements with the material world that occur in the course of trying to becoming mobile with a small baby. Drawing on a rigorous empirical base of 37 interviews with 20 families in East London, we analyse the relationships between discourses of parenting and the material practices of journey-making. Bringing together conceptual work on the new materialism and mobility studies, we advan…
Geographies of citizenship and everyday (im)mobility
Performing Resistance? Re-Reading Practices of Urban Cycling on London's South Bank
Despite a burgeoning literature on mobilities in general and cycling in particular as a transport, leisure, and political practice, there remains a lack of research on cycling in pedestrian public spaces. There is, however, a substantial body of literature in relation to skateboarding in public spaces which with few exceptions theorises it as resistant to preexisting dominant design codes and social norms. Using the example of London's South Bank…
Fixing Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Cycling Policy and Practice in London as a Mode of Political–Economic and Biopolitical Governance
Academic interest in utility cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the efficacy of cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Yet with few exceptions, none of these accounts conceptualizes cycling as a mode of neoliberal governance through which circulation and quality of labor are improved. This article seeks to address this abs…
Are you being shared? Mobility, data and social relations in Shanghai’s Public Bike Sharing 2.0 sector
Starting in early 2016, a new wave of dockless ICT-based Public Bike Sharing Systems (PBSS 2.0) has grown rapidly in many Chinese cities and is now spreading globally. Whilst there is a growing literature on sharing and a substantial technical literature on the earlier breed of docked PBSS 1.0, there is no critical academic study of this new bike sharing phenomenon. This paper seeks to contribute to social scientific debates on sharing and mobili…
(Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: The Production and Economisation of Cycling Culture in Pursuit of Accumulation
There have been recent calls in mobilities literature for greater engagement with how mobility regimes are shaped and governed at different scales. In relation to cycling-related mobilities scholarship, there are very few accounts situating cycling within broader bio-political and political–economic processes. This paper seeks to address this absence, situating contemporary formations of cycling culture within processes of capital accumulation an…
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai
This paper contributes to debates on urban governance and mobility through a case study of the transformation of public bike sharing schemes in Shanghai (China) from fixed/docked (PBSS 1.0) to flexible/dockless (PBSS 2.0). Based upon stakeholder interviews and observations between 2015 and 2017, we use the concept of a dispositive to foreground two related processes. The first is the reformulation of the governmental dispositive that coalesces ar…
A Place of Sense: A Kinaesthetic Ethnography of Cyclists on Mont Ventoux
In this paper I explore the notion that our movements in and through a place define our engagement with it and help to constitute it as a place. Concepts and concomitant interpretations of place as a 'situated' and contemplative experience have to date received much cultural geographical attention. In increasingly mobile societies, however, I argue that mobility should be central to the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the character …
Cycling the City: Movement, Meaning and Method
Conceptualisations of movement and mobility within geography are increasingly complicating reductive and sedentarist understandings that have tended to theorise mobility either as meaningless, or as the practical outcome of 'rational' decision makers. Until quite recently there has been a sedentarist bias in cultural geographic enquiry that has resulted in negative readings of mobility as insensate, polluting and harmful. Conversely, while transp…
Catching a Glimpse: The Value of Video in Evoking, Understanding and Representing the Practice of Cycling
Researchers seeking to understand how places, spaces and subjectivities are constituted in and through motion increasingly acknowledge the value of harnessing the material, social and affective context of motion itself; actively engaging movement in the creation of research knowledges. For certain highly mobile and physical practices such as cycling, attempting to research through ‘being there’ is crucial if we are to move beyond rationalised and…
Performing Resistance? Re-Reading Practices of Urban Cycling on London's South Bank
Despite a burgeoning literature on mobilities in general and cycling in particular as a transport, leisure, and political practice, there remains a lack of research on cycling in pedestrian public spaces. There is, however, a substantial body of literature in relation to skateboarding in public spaces which with few exceptions theorises it as resistant to preexisting dominant design codes and social norms. Using the example of London's South Bank…
Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency
David Thorpe, London, Earthscan, 2010, 192 pp., £34.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781844078769 The publication of Sustainable Home Refurbishment will be a welcome addition for project managers and self-builders
A Chance to Catch a Breath: Using Mobile Video Ethnography in Cycling Research
Under the rubric of transport much previous research on everyday mobility has focused on understanding the more representational and readily articulated aspects of everyday movement. By way of contrast, emergent theorisations of mobility suggest that an understanding of the less representational - those fleeting, ephemeral and often embodied and sensory aspects of movement - is vital if we are to fully understand why and how people move around. A…
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and Solutions
Brenda Boardman, London, Earthscan, 2010, 256 pp., £24.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781844077441 Brenda Boardman has been actively researching and campaigning to raise awareness of the state, causes, effects an
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
Alternative mobilities
Driving the ‘Starship Enterprise’ through London: Constructing the im/moral driver-citizen through HGV safety technology
Geographies of citizenship and everyday (im)mobility
Close encounters? Mobile methods, (post)phenomenology and affect
There has been a recent upsurge in mobilities research relating to embodied movement, and a corresponding interest in adapting methods to acquire data while on the move. At the same time, many of the questions being asked relate to non-representational aspects of movement, notably the sensory, emotional and affective. While approaches that attempt to enable the researcher to 'be, see and feel there' such as mobile video ethnography are becoming m…
Fixing Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Cycling Policy and Practice in London as a Mode of Political–Economic and Biopolitical Governance
Academic interest in utility cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the efficacy of cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Yet with few exceptions, none of these accounts conceptualizes cycling as a mode of neoliberal governance through which circulation and quality of labor are improved. This article seeks to address this abs…
Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother
This paper is about the entanglements or mutually affecting engagements with the material world that occur in the course of trying to becoming mobile with a small baby. Drawing on a rigorous empirical base of 37 interviews with 20 families in East London, we analyse the relationships between discourses of parenting and the material practices of journey-making. Bringing together conceptual work on the new materialism and mobility studies, we advan…
Are you being shared? Mobility, data and social relations in Shanghai’s Public Bike Sharing 2.0 sector
Starting in early 2016, a new wave of dockless ICT-based Public Bike Sharing Systems (PBSS 2.0) has grown rapidly in many Chinese cities and is now spreading globally. Whilst there is a growing literature on sharing and a substantial technical literature on the earlier breed of docked PBSS 1.0, there is no critical academic study of this new bike sharing phenomenon. This paper seeks to contribute to social scientific debates on sharing and mobili…
(Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: The Production and Economisation of Cycling Culture in Pursuit of Accumulation
There have been recent calls in mobilities literature for greater engagement with how mobility regimes are shaped and governed at different scales. In relation to cycling-related mobilities scholarship, there are very few accounts situating cycling within broader bio-political and political–economic processes. This paper seeks to address this absence, situating contemporary formations of cycling culture within processes of capital accumulation an…
A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: The politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai's Dockless Public Bike Sharing Sector
Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai
This paper contributes to debates on urban governance and mobility through a case study of the transformation of public bike sharing schemes in Shanghai (China) from fixed/docked (PBSS 1.0) to flexible/dockless (PBSS 2.0). Based upon stakeholder interviews and observations between 2015 and 2017, we use the concept of a dispositive to foreground two related processes. The first is the reformulation of the governmental dispositive that coalesces ar…
To do or not to do: Practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises
This article contributes to an ongoing discussion regarding the ethics of online research involving children and young people (CYP) during crises. The paper critically reflects on our experience of designing, approving and conducting a multi-country study utilising an online diary to investigate how social, physical and virtual conditions shape and are shaped by CYP’s everyday experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reflections identify fou…
Handbook of Travel Behaviour
This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive and diverse understanding of the determinants of travel behaviour, looking at the ways in which it can be better understood, modelled and forecasted. Dimitris Potoglou and Justin Spinney bring together an international range of esteemed academics who explore the origins of the field, research analysis methods, environmental considerations, and social factors. This title contains one or more Open Acc…
Valuing “Othered” Rationalities in the Smart City: Examining Children’s Cycling from a Justice Perspective
This article seeks to contribute to the intersection of children’s mobility (specifically cycling) by assessing the extent to which emerging socio-technical smart city systems accommodate children’s rationalities. In order to do so, it reviews literature on children’s mobility, cycling, and participation in design of smart solutions. Through this process, I highlight distributional injustice where children are marginalized in adult-centric cyclin…
The spatialisation of para-diplomacy: The role of regional power dynamics in the development and operation of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei (Taiwan)
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Obituary: Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Business (7 works)