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Cycling case closed? A situated response to Samuel Nello-Deakin's “Environmental determinants of cycling: Not seeing the forest for the trees?”
Abstract This paper responds to Samuel Nello-Deakin's (2020) recent viewpoint, where he provocatively states that we already know enough of what is necessary to get more people to cycle: taking road space away from motor vehicles and ceding it to cyclists is a simple formula applicable in most cities around the world, provided there is political will. Further research, he claims, is unlikely to deliver new policy insights. This paper cautions against universalising the experiences of European “cycling cities” and suggests that turning to cities of the global South can animate cycling research in promising new directions. Fundamentally, it argues that it is necessary to situate cycling research and proposes worlding cycling research as a strategy to move away from Eurocentric visions of cycling cities. In doing so, it proposes avenues for further enquiry that take seriously the complex political challenges faced by cities of the global South, as well as the particular desires, aspirations and innovations of their inhabitants.
Highlights In a recent viewpoint Samuel Nello-Deakin holds that we already know enough of what is necessary to get more people cycling. This paper responds to Nello-Deakin, arguing for the need to situate cycling research and proposes 'worlding' cycling. Three possibilities for worlding cycling research are proposed to de-centre Europe in cycling scholarship. Scholars ought to heed the call to decolonise transport knowledge and advance a truly global geography of vélomobility.
Cycling case closed? A situated response to Samuel Nello-Deakin's “Environmental determinants of cycling: Not seeing the forest for the trees?”
Abstract This paper responds to Samuel Nello-Deakin's (2020) recent viewpoint, where he provocatively states that we already know enough of what is necessary to get more people to cycle: taking road space away from motor vehicles and ceding it to cyclists is a simple formula applicable in most cities around the world, provided there is political will. Further research, he claims, is unlikely to deliver new policy insights. This paper cautions against universalising the experiences of European “cycling cities” and suggests that turning to cities of the global South can animate cycling research in promising new directions. Fundamentally, it argues that it is necessary to situate cycling research and proposes worlding cycling research as a strategy to move away from Eurocentric visions of cycling cities. In doing so, it proposes avenues for further enquiry that take seriously the complex political challenges faced by cities of the global South, as well as the particular desires, aspirations and innovations of their inhabitants.
Highlights In a recent viewpoint Samuel Nello-Deakin holds that we already know enough of what is necessary to get more people cycling. This paper responds to Nello-Deakin, arguing for the need to situate cycling research and proposes 'worlding' cycling. Three possibilities for worlding cycling research are proposed to de-centre Europe in cycling scholarship. Scholars ought to heed the call to decolonise transport knowledge and advance a truly global geography of vélomobility.
Cycling case closed? A situated response to Samuel Nello-Deakin's “Environmental determinants of cycling: Not seeing the forest for the trees?”
Castañeda, Paola (Autor:in)
27.12.2020
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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