Sharing Mobilities: Questioning Our Right to the City in the Collaborative Economy

ISBN-13: 9781032087856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Mike Duggan

Opis

This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, it raises questions about what these changes mean for access to public transport in the city.

Spis treści

Foreword by Juliet B. Schor;  Acknowledegments;  1. Welcome to the age of sharing;  2. The successes and failures of shared urban mobility;  3. Sharing mobility, mobility justice, and the right to the city;  4. Regulation, platform governance, and the labour practices of shared urban mobility;  5. Empowering connections: relations, collaborations, and community in sharing mobility;  6. Conclusion

O autorze

Davide Arcidiacono is a researcher in Economic Sociology at the University of Catania, Italy. His research focuses on the issues of digital transformation and the sharing and platform economy.

Mike Duggan is a teaching fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between digital technologies and everyday cultures of practice.