Negotiating Difference on Public Transport

How Practices and Experiences of Deviance Shape Public Space

Bibliographic Data

ID22018555
AuthorsLouise Sträuli (0000-0002-5840-5911, Tallinn University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume8
Issue4
Publication date2023-07-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v8i4.6456
OpenAlexW4385344618
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited38

Given the diversity of passengers, public transport has hitherto been described as a public space of encounters, conviviality, or conflict. However, other dimensions of publicness, such as codes of conduct, deviance, visibility, or resistance, have received less attention. Based on qualitative interviews with transport users whose physical or financial abilities, or mobility needs differ from default passengers, this article outlines daily experiences and practices of negotiating differences through situational and societal deviance. In particular, I examine the daily struggles of passengers travelling in Brussels during the Covid-19 pandemic or without a valid ticket, along with people who rely on public transport in Tallinn due to care responsibilities. By describing quotidian practices and experiences of deviance, I argue that understanding publicness as a process of ongoing negotiation and appropriation promotes more equitable and inclusive planning practices

Appropriation · Computer security · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Public space · Public transport · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Ticket · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Engineering · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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