Jonne Silonsaari
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonne Silonsaari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonne |
| FAMILY NAME | Silonsaari |
| SIGNATURE | SILONSAARI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4015-5117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creating child-friendly cities here and now. Prefiguration and mobility rationalities in child-centric cycling activism.
The majority of the discussion around child-friendly cities (CFCs) overlooks how they are created beyond governance measures and institutional actors. The paper discusses cycling activism operating with bike buses, street experiments and Kidical Mass demonstrations. By conceptualizing the mobilizations as forms of prefigurative politics, we explain how they are creating CFCs here and now, based on a diversity of mobility rationalities. The findin…
Playing With Prefiguration
Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited. In this article, I conceptualize prefigurative political forms of child mobility activism (i.e. mobility collectives, street experiments and demonstrations) as ludic spaces that prefigure children's right to…
Assembling velomobile commons for young people in a marginalised Amsterdam neighborhood
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents' representations of children's leisure mobilities
Intensive parenting has become a key term for analysing the pressures and priorities of contemporary western parenting culture. For mobility studies it provides a discursive framework for understanding why children’s leisure has shifted from free play and mobility towards various adult-led organised activities and why parents deem it necessary to control children’s leisure journeys in an unprecedented manner. Most of the research on parenting and…
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents' representations of children's leisure mobilities
Intensive parenting has become a key term for analysing the pressures and priorities of contemporary western parenting culture. For mobility studies it provides a discursive framework for understanding why children’s leisure has shifted from free play and mobility towards various adult-led organised activities and why parents deem it necessary to control children’s leisure journeys in an unprecedented manner. Most of the research on parenting and…
Assembling velomobile commons for young people in a marginalised Amsterdam neighborhood
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents' representations of children's leisure mobilities
Intensive parenting has become a key term for analysing the pressures and priorities of contemporary western parenting culture. For mobility studies it provides a discursive framework for understanding why children’s leisure has shifted from free play and mobility towards various adult-led organised activities and why parents deem it necessary to control children’s leisure journeys in an unprecedented manner. Most of the research on parenting and…
Assembling velomobile commons for young people in a marginalised Amsterdam neighborhood
Creating child-friendly cities here and now. Prefiguration and mobility rationalities in child-centric cycling activism.
The majority of the discussion around child-friendly cities (CFCs) overlooks how they are created beyond governance measures and institutional actors. The paper discusses cycling activism operating with bike buses, street experiments and Kidical Mass demonstrations. By conceptualizing the mobilizations as forms of prefigurative politics, we explain how they are creating CFCs here and now, based on a diversity of mobility rationalities. The findin…
Playing With Prefiguration
Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited. In this article, I conceptualize prefigurative political forms of child mobility activism (i.e. mobility collectives, street experiments and demonstrations) as ludic spaces that prefigure children's right to…
Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Commons (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Cycling (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Early Childhood Education and Development (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work)