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

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This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of everyday urban mobility. Tracing the social and economic history of sharing mobilities and examining contemporary case studies of mobility sharing services, such as Car2go, BlaBlaCar, and Uber, the authors raise questions about what these changes mean for access to and engagement with the public spaces of transport in the city. Drawing on the thought of Lefebvre, the book considers how contemporary sharing mobilities are affecting people’s ‘right to the city’, with particular attention paid to the privatised, frictionless practices of movement through the city. In addition, the authors ask what has happened to earlier forms of shared mobility and illustrate how some of these practices continue successfully today. Considering the potential that modern incarnations of shared mobilities offer to urban citizens for engaging in meaningful shared mobilities that are not simply determined by the interfaces of technology and market forces, this book will appeal to sociologists and geographers with interests in mobility and urban studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of tables Foreword Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index