Sharing Mobilities: New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society

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Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas, and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. The future of new collaborative forms of consumption and sharing would play a key role in the organization of everyday life and business. Sharing mobilities is more than simply sharing transport, and its diverse impacts on society and the environment demand thorough theory-led sociological research. With an extensive global range, the contributors present radical manifestations of sharing capacities throughout diverse countries, including Germany, Denmark, Japan, and Vietnam. The phenomenon of mobility is highly actual and social as well as politically relevant and urging. This collection focuses on open questions from the perspective of the mobilities turn while presenting state-of-the-art theory-based articles with applied perspectives. An ideal read for scholars based in social science and the interdisciplinary research on mobility, transports, and sharing economy. Sociologists, geographers, economists, urban governance researchers, and research students would also find this book of interest. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Sharing Mobilities and the Mobile Risk Society: An Introduction 2. Virtual Exchange-Based Mobilities: Platform Economy, Exchange and Culture 3. Tourist Practices in the Sharing System of Web 2.0: The Case of Taiwanese Couchsurfers 4. A Carrier Bag of Waste Food 5. The Governance of Urban Accessibility 6. Are You Being Shared? Mobility, Data and Social Relations in Shanghai’s Public Bike Sharing 2.0 Sector 7. Coexistence of Multiple Temporalities: Ruptured Shared Mobilities in the Tokyo Metro 8. Before the Dream of a Shared Autonomous Vehicle 9. Recruitment, Stabilization and Defection: Exploring Car Sharing Pathways of Young Urban Households 10. Commercializing the xe om: Motorbike Taxis, GrabBike, and Shared Mobilities in Hanoi Index