This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life.
Through a detailed empirical study of practices of community carsharing and its practitioners in the rural regions around Munich, Germany, this book reveals how the practice contributes to the emergence of alternative automobile practices, meanings, identities and subjectivities. It also explores the embedding of automobility into its ecological context, the connection of function and community in practices of community carsharing and the changing of ownership relations through a process of commoning mobility. This reconfiguration of everyday practices of automobility takes place through processes of everyday resistance, re-embedding and commoning, and ultimately results in the emergence of an alternative mobility culture, thereby facilitating the dissemination of an alternative common sense of community carsharing.
Author(s): Luca Nitschke
Series: Networked Urban Mobilities Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 242
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
1. Capitalist mobilities, sharing mobilities and the need for reconfiguring the everyday
2. Empirical introduction: Investigating community carsharing
3. Reconstituting automobility: Changing the meanings of the car and (auto)mobility
4. Re-embedding automobility: Ecological critique and counterhegemonic practice
Interlude: The collective and organizational character of
everyday life
5. “We do it together for us”: Community, collective identity and social re-embedding
6. Commoning mobility: Community carsharing and changing ownership
7. Community carsharing and the social–ecological mobility transition
Index