Temporalities of e-scooter practices and their systemic effects
The case of the city of Poznań, Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21363836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska (0000-0002-4492-0162, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Poznań, Poland, corresponding author), Zuzanna Jezierska (Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), Witold Krzemiński (0000-0003-4450-5943, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Poznań, Poland), Filip Schmidt (0000-0002-4096-4184, Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 270-284 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-1951 • E-ISSN: 1502-5292 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00291951.2024.2403508 |
| OpenAlex | W4403339892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
Studies of e-scooters’ usage mushroomed in the social sciences almost as quickly as the new means of urban mobility themselves appeared in many European cities. After almost five years of their presence in Poland, it is still not clear whether e-scooters will and should remain part of the sustainability transition, and how they have contributed to it thus far. The article explores the potential of the social practice approach (SPA) to examine temporalities of e-scooters’ usage at the level of individual practices, their structuration effects, and at the systemic level. It is based on ethnographic interviews carried out with the most active e-scooter users in Poznań, a medium-size city in Poland. The authors find that the temporal characteristics of the e-scooter practices and of their structuring effects suggest that e-scooters induced systemic changes quickly but that their extent and timespan may be limited in many ways. They conclude that even if e-scooters disappear from the spaces in the city of Poznań, micromobility will continue while other means of transport are in use
Business · Geography · Political science · Temporalities · History · Impact of Light on Environment and Health · Law · Smart Cities and Technologies · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Social Practices
Social Change in a Material World
Technological Transitions and System Innovations
The hygienic transition from cesspools to sewer systems (1840–1930)
Non-linearity and Expectations in Niche-Development Trajectories
The destabilisation of existing regimes
Multi-dimensional struggles in the greening of industry
Conditions for politically accelerated transitions
Electric scooter safety
The Site of the Social
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Are e-scooters polluters? The environmental impacts of shared dockless electric scooters
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions
The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions
A matter of time
The early days of shared micromobility
Enhancing equitable service level
Toward Equitable Micromobility
Major system change through stepwise reconfiguration
Recruitment and Reproduction
Making and breaking links
Blurred boundaries
Practice Diffusion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |