TY - JOUR
T1 - La bicicleta que languidece
T2 - capacidades en agotamiento de cuerpos-ciclistasResumen
AU - Waitt, Gordon
AU - Buchanan, Ian
AU - Lea, Tess
AU - Fuller, Glen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [DP190100185]. Project funding was through an Australian Research Council Discovery Project entitled ‘Pedalling for change’ (DP190100185). The research received ethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC no 2017/318). University of Wollongong. We thank Theresa Harada for research assistance, the reviewers for the constructive critique of earlier drafts and all participants who shared their stories of stopping cycling in the City of Sydney, Australia.
Funding Information:
Project funding was through an Australian Research Council Discovery Project entitled ‘Pedalling for change’ (DP190100185). The research received ethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC no 2017/318). University of Wollongong. We thank Theresa Harada for research assistance, the reviewers for the constructive critique of earlier drafts and all participants who shared their stories of stopping cycling in the City of Sydney, Australia.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article focuses on what may be depleting people’s capacity to ride a bike in cities. ‘Capacity to cycle’ is here understood not as a behavioural trait or in terms of infrastructure provision, but, taking our lead from Deleuze and Guattari, as a desiring cycling-machine. We argue this offers a way to envisage depleting, or enhancing, capacities to cycle as a working socio-material arrangement that make, remake, and unmake cycling-bodies and spaces. The article draws upon mixed-qualitative research conducted with 18 adults who own bikes in 2019, but no longer ride in the City of Sydney, Australia. Three vignettes draw attention to the opposing forces that support and dissolve cycling bodily capacities over the course of repeated, routine city bike journeys. We illustrate those depleting bodily capacities to cycle for transport involve sensations of the self, pedalling through space. It follows that a shift towards cycling mobilities demands related incorporation into planning of the transformative impacts of the near-at-hand and social norms.
AB - This article focuses on what may be depleting people’s capacity to ride a bike in cities. ‘Capacity to cycle’ is here understood not as a behavioural trait or in terms of infrastructure provision, but, taking our lead from Deleuze and Guattari, as a desiring cycling-machine. We argue this offers a way to envisage depleting, or enhancing, capacities to cycle as a working socio-material arrangement that make, remake, and unmake cycling-bodies and spaces. The article draws upon mixed-qualitative research conducted with 18 adults who own bikes in 2019, but no longer ride in the City of Sydney, Australia. Three vignettes draw attention to the opposing forces that support and dissolve cycling bodily capacities over the course of repeated, routine city bike journeys. We illustrate those depleting bodily capacities to cycle for transport involve sensations of the self, pedalling through space. It follows that a shift towards cycling mobilities demands related incorporation into planning of the transformative impacts of the near-at-hand and social norms.
KW - assemblage thinking
KW - australia
KW - ethnography
KW - molar movement
KW - Molecular movement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118452911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14649365.2021.2000018
DO - 10.1080/14649365.2021.2000018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118452911
SN - 1464-9365
VL - 24
SP - 987
EP - 1004
JO - Social and Cultural Geography
JF - Social and Cultural Geography
IS - 6
ER -