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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice. With a feminist perspective on transport policy and planning, the volume insists on the political character of transport planning and policy, and challenges gender-blindness in a policy area that impacts the everyday lives of women, men, girls, and boys. The chapters discuss everyday mobility as an embodied and situated activity in both conceptual and theoretical ways and suggest practical tools for change. The contributions of this collection are threefold: integrating gender research and transport planning, combining quantitative and qualitative gender research perspectives and methods, and highlighting the need to acknowledge the politicization of transport planning and transport practice.
Table of Contents1. The political in transport and mobility – toward a feminist analysis of everyday mobility and transport planning, Tanja Joelsson and Christina Lindkvist Scholten2. Are we still not there yet? Moving further along the gender highway, Clara Greed3. Travel choice reframed: "deep distribution" and gender in urban transport4. Gendered perspectives on Swedish transport policy-making – an issue for gendered sustainability too, Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist5. How to apply Gender Equality Goals in transport and infrastructure planning, Lena Levin and Charlotta Faith-Ell6. Til Work Do Us Part: The Social Fallacy of Long-distance Commuting, Erika Sandow7. Measuring mobilities of care, a challenge for transportation agendas, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga and Elena Zucchini8. The 'I' in sustainable planning – constructions of users within municipal planning for sustainable mobility, Malin Henriksson9. Towards an intersectional approach to men, masculinities and (un)sustainable mobility: the case of cycling and modal conflicts, Dag Balkmar10. Hypermobile, sustainable or safe? Imagined childhoods in the neo-liberal transport system, Tanja Joelsson11. Gendering mobilities and (in)equalities in post socialist China, Hilda Roemer Christensen12. Towards a feminist transport and mobility future – from one to many tracks, Tanja Joelsson and Christina Lindkvist Scholten
