Wojciech Kębłowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wojciech Kębłowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wojciech |
| FAMILY NAME | Kębłowski |
| SIGNATURE | KĘBŁOWSKI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2376-8357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Between bordering and producing mobilities: The roles of fares in public transport policing
This article studies the links between public transport (PT) policing and fare policies. On the one hand, policing has recently been conceptualized as ‘practices of bordering’ (Christensen and Albrecht Citation2020), converging with research on the surveillance of enclosed public spaces. This research underlines the critical role of access control and flow management, through the facilitation of desirable circulations and the exclusion of individ…
There Ain’t No Fuel!” Addressing Material Scarcity in Urban Mobility in Santiago de Cuba
In this article, we address the dearth of research on urban cases of large-scale and long-term reduction of resource consumption. We focus on mobility in Santiago de Cuba, a city where geopolitical embargo has caused material scarcity, severely reducing access to fuel, vehicles, and spare parts. Consequently, mobility is both restrained and decoupled from individual motorized transport, and largely depends on collective transport. We explore how …
Catching China-Europe trains: Local agency and Global China in the Polish borderland
How does transport scarcity affect the everyday lives of women? Herstories of daily mobility in Santiago de Cuba
I always say, it’s the icing on the cake: The discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg
Although the policy of fare-free public transport (FFPT) continues to gain popularity across diverse geographical contexts, the case of Luxembourg is unique in this global landscape. It is the first nation-state to have universally abolished fares, in a society characterized by high incomes and GDP, and a particularly high car ownership rate. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of political discourses on FFPT in Luxembourg surrounding the int…
Hunting in a pack? Interrogating the publicness of Mobility as a Service in Brussels
Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo: Efficient Transport, Exhausted Workers
While transport and mobility studies have focused on diverse challenges related to improving the quality of public transport (PT) for its passengers, they have hardly examined the well-being and livelihoods of PT workers. To address this gap, we explore the work spaces and times of bus drivers employed in PT in Gothenburg and Stockholm (Sweden), where PT operations are procured from private companies to ensure service quality and financial effici…
From Bełchatów to Żory: Charting Poland's geography of fare-free public transport programmes
The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town
While many urban policies and practices claim to offer an “alternative” to the “mainstream” of urban entrepreneurialism, they remain under‐theorised and prone to alignment with entrepreneurial agendas. In this paper I examine fare‐free public transport (FFPT) as a salient example of an alternative urban policy. Looking at Aubagne (France) and Tallinn (Estonia), I explore what happens when an alternative policy “comes to town”. I detect how FFPT e…
Degrowth is coming to town: What can it learn from critical perspectives on urban transport
Degrowth offers a particularly trans-disciplinary and robust critique of growth-driven configurations of space, society and economy. However, its proponents are yet to seriously engage with urban environments by clearly outlining how, where, for whom and under what conditions the principles of degrowth could be applied in urban contexts. In this article, I focus on transport as a vehicle for understanding and addressing this challenge, thus contr…
The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion
Drawing on the example of the metro in Brussels, we examine public transport as a public space. We uncover how the conception of the metro and its fare system reflects an idealisation of public transport that conflicts with the daily experiences and structural inequalities among its users, manifested, in part, in fare evasion. We explore this practice through qualitative interviews, observational studies and analysis of online evader platforms. I…
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning
In this introduction to the Special Issue titled Degrowth, Cities and Planning, we explore the urban dimension of a radical socio-ecological transformation inspired by the idea of degrowth, geared towards achieving humanity’s long-term wellbeing and sustainability. Although cities and urban planning should arguably play a central role in such a transition, the urban dimension of degrowth has remained largely unexplored. Bringing together the cont…
Informalities in urban transport: Mobilities at the heart of contestations over (in)formalisation processes
Why (not) abolish fares? Exploring the global geography of fare-free public transport
Circular economy and the city: An urban political economy agenda
The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …
Decolonial approaches to urban transport geographies: Introduction to the special issue
Placing cities in the circular economy: Neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition
The last decade has seen the adoption of the imaginary of a circular economy (CE) by cities. To date, much of the debate has been technical in orientation, making that the implications of the CE for urban theory and praxis have hitherto not been explored in great depth. This Debates and Interventions contribution collects work from diverse disciplinary quarters and geographical contexts, documenting the CE as an emerging alternative space of urba…
Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels
Towards an urban political geography of transport: Unpacking the political and scalar dynamics of fare-free public transport in Tallinn, Estonia
In this article, we study the largest existing fare-free public transport (FFPT) programme, launched in 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia. Instead of focusing solely on the rationale and impact of fare-free public transport in terms of finances and travel patterns, we propose to analyse FFPT from the perspective of urban political geography, and to inquire into its political and scalar dynamics. We analyse how Tallinn’s fare-free programme was developed, …
All transport problems are essentially mathematical”: The uneven resonance of academic transport and mobility knowledge in Brussels
This paper presents an inquiry into the capacity of transport and mobility studies to critically engage with contemporary policies. Drawing on the conceptualization of circuits of knowledge, the paper scrutinizes the extent to which transport policy agendas are framed around various approaches within academia. An extensive literature review reveals that the academic field of transport and mobility is organized around a hegemonic core of “neoclass…
All transport problems are essentially mathematical”: The uneven resonance of academic transport and mobility knowledge in Brussels
This paper presents an inquiry into the capacity of transport and mobility studies to critically engage with contemporary policies. Drawing on the conceptualization of circuits of knowledge, the paper scrutinizes the extent to which transport policy agendas are framed around various approaches within academia. An extensive literature review reveals that the academic field of transport and mobility is organized around a hegemonic core of “neoclass…
Circular economy and the city: An urban political economy agenda
The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …
Placing cities in the circular economy: Neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition
The last decade has seen the adoption of the imaginary of a circular economy (CE) by cities. To date, much of the debate has been technical in orientation, making that the implications of the CE for urban theory and praxis have hitherto not been explored in great depth. This Debates and Interventions contribution collects work from diverse disciplinary quarters and geographical contexts, documenting the CE as an emerging alternative space of urba…
Decolonial approaches to urban transport geographies: Introduction to the special issue
Informalities in urban transport: Mobilities at the heart of contestations over (in)formalisation processes
Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
Degrowth is coming to town: What can it learn from critical perspectives on urban transport
Degrowth offers a particularly trans-disciplinary and robust critique of growth-driven configurations of space, society and economy. However, its proponents are yet to seriously engage with urban environments by clearly outlining how, where, for whom and under what conditions the principles of degrowth could be applied in urban contexts. In this article, I focus on transport as a vehicle for understanding and addressing this challenge, thus contr…
The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion
Drawing on the example of the metro in Brussels, we examine public transport as a public space. We uncover how the conception of the metro and its fare system reflects an idealisation of public transport that conflicts with the daily experiences and structural inequalities among its users, manifested, in part, in fare evasion. We explore this practice through qualitative interviews, observational studies and analysis of online evader platforms. I…
How does transport scarcity affect the everyday lives of women? Herstories of daily mobility in Santiago de Cuba
Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo: Efficient Transport, Exhausted Workers
While transport and mobility studies have focused on diverse challenges related to improving the quality of public transport (PT) for its passengers, they have hardly examined the well-being and livelihoods of PT workers. To address this gap, we explore the work spaces and times of bus drivers employed in PT in Gothenburg and Stockholm (Sweden), where PT operations are procured from private companies to ensure service quality and financial effici…
The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town
While many urban policies and practices claim to offer an “alternative” to the “mainstream” of urban entrepreneurialism, they remain under‐theorised and prone to alignment with entrepreneurial agendas. In this paper I examine fare‐free public transport (FFPT) as a salient example of an alternative urban policy. Looking at Aubagne (France) and Tallinn (Estonia), I explore what happens when an alternative policy “comes to town”. I detect how FFPT e…
Towards an urban political geography of transport: Unpacking the political and scalar dynamics of fare-free public transport in Tallinn, Estonia
In this article, we study the largest existing fare-free public transport (FFPT) programme, launched in 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia. Instead of focusing solely on the rationale and impact of fare-free public transport in terms of finances and travel patterns, we propose to analyse FFPT from the perspective of urban political geography, and to inquire into its political and scalar dynamics. We analyse how Tallinn’s fare-free programme was developed, …
From Bełchatów to Żory: Charting Poland's geography of fare-free public transport programmes
All transport problems are essentially mathematical”: The uneven resonance of academic transport and mobility knowledge in Brussels
This paper presents an inquiry into the capacity of transport and mobility studies to critically engage with contemporary policies. Drawing on the conceptualization of circuits of knowledge, the paper scrutinizes the extent to which transport policy agendas are framed around various approaches within academia. An extensive literature review reveals that the academic field of transport and mobility is organized around a hegemonic core of “neoclass…
Towards an urban political geography of transport: Unpacking the political and scalar dynamics of fare-free public transport in Tallinn, Estonia
In this article, we study the largest existing fare-free public transport (FFPT) programme, launched in 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia. Instead of focusing solely on the rationale and impact of fare-free public transport in terms of finances and travel patterns, we propose to analyse FFPT from the perspective of urban political geography, and to inquire into its political and scalar dynamics. We analyse how Tallinn’s fare-free programme was developed, …
Why (not) abolish fares? Exploring the global geography of fare-free public transport
Circular economy and the city: An urban political economy agenda
The circular economy (CE) has become a matter of urban development. A literature review shows that the CE debate is biased toward technology-driven industrial change, while bracketing broader socio-political interests. We address this gap by exploring the political economy of scale of the CE. Looking into the case of Brussels (Belgium), a city that has recently adopted the CE as part of its socio-economic strategy, we explore how the anticipated …
Decolonial approaches to urban transport geographies: Introduction to the special issue
Placing cities in the circular economy: Neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition
The last decade has seen the adoption of the imaginary of a circular economy (CE) by cities. To date, much of the debate has been technical in orientation, making that the implications of the CE for urban theory and praxis have hitherto not been explored in great depth. This Debates and Interventions contribution collects work from diverse disciplinary quarters and geographical contexts, documenting the CE as an emerging alternative space of urba…
Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning
In this introduction to the Special Issue titled Degrowth, Cities and Planning, we explore the urban dimension of a radical socio-ecological transformation inspired by the idea of degrowth, geared towards achieving humanity’s long-term wellbeing and sustainability. Although cities and urban planning should arguably play a central role in such a transition, the urban dimension of degrowth has remained largely unexplored. Bringing together the cont…
Informalities in urban transport: Mobilities at the heart of contestations over (in)formalisation processes
From Bełchatów to Żory: Charting Poland's geography of fare-free public transport programmes
The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town
While many urban policies and practices claim to offer an “alternative” to the “mainstream” of urban entrepreneurialism, they remain under‐theorised and prone to alignment with entrepreneurial agendas. In this paper I examine fare‐free public transport (FFPT) as a salient example of an alternative urban policy. Looking at Aubagne (France) and Tallinn (Estonia), I explore what happens when an alternative policy “comes to town”. I detect how FFPT e…
Degrowth is coming to town: What can it learn from critical perspectives on urban transport
Degrowth offers a particularly trans-disciplinary and robust critique of growth-driven configurations of space, society and economy. However, its proponents are yet to seriously engage with urban environments by clearly outlining how, where, for whom and under what conditions the principles of degrowth could be applied in urban contexts. In this article, I focus on transport as a vehicle for understanding and addressing this challenge, thus contr…
The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion
Drawing on the example of the metro in Brussels, we examine public transport as a public space. We uncover how the conception of the metro and its fare system reflects an idealisation of public transport that conflicts with the daily experiences and structural inequalities among its users, manifested, in part, in fare evasion. We explore this practice through qualitative interviews, observational studies and analysis of online evader platforms. I…
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo: Efficient Transport, Exhausted Workers
While transport and mobility studies have focused on diverse challenges related to improving the quality of public transport (PT) for its passengers, they have hardly examined the well-being and livelihoods of PT workers. To address this gap, we explore the work spaces and times of bus drivers employed in PT in Gothenburg and Stockholm (Sweden), where PT operations are procured from private companies to ensure service quality and financial effici…
Catching China-Europe trains: Local agency and Global China in the Polish borderland
How does transport scarcity affect the everyday lives of women? Herstories of daily mobility in Santiago de Cuba
I always say, it’s the icing on the cake: The discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg
Although the policy of fare-free public transport (FFPT) continues to gain popularity across diverse geographical contexts, the case of Luxembourg is unique in this global landscape. It is the first nation-state to have universally abolished fares, in a society characterized by high incomes and GDP, and a particularly high car ownership rate. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of political discourses on FFPT in Luxembourg surrounding the int…
Hunting in a pack? Interrogating the publicness of Mobility as a Service in Brussels
Between bordering and producing mobilities: The roles of fares in public transport policing
This article studies the links between public transport (PT) policing and fare policies. On the one hand, policing has recently been conceptualized as ‘practices of bordering’ (Christensen and Albrecht Citation2020), converging with research on the surveillance of enclosed public spaces. This research underlines the critical role of access control and flow management, through the facilitation of desirable circulations and the exclusion of individ…
There Ain’t No Fuel!” Addressing Material Scarcity in Urban Mobility in Santiago de Cuba
In this article, we address the dearth of research on urban cases of large-scale and long-term reduction of resource consumption. We focus on mobility in Santiago de Cuba, a city where geopolitical embargo has caused material scarcity, severely reducing access to fuel, vehicles, and spare parts. Consequently, mobility is both restrained and decoupled from individual motorized transport, and largely depends on collective transport. We explore how …
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