Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"With this strong empirical account of community carsharing, Luca Nitschke offers rich insights into the nitty-gritty details and problems of changing mobility on the micro-scale. Convincingly arguing for a new culture of mobility, he also points to the intricacies and necessary frictions of socio-technical transformations on the macro-scale."
Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Science Studies and Innovation Research, Hamburg University
"Luca Nitschke brilliantly investigates the scarcely researched practice of non-commercial community carsharing. The case allows a grounded critique of the capitalist logic of modern automobility and commercial carsharing and thus provides a much needed and fresh understanding of causal mechanisms behind practicing carsharing and explores in a systematic way the shifting meanings of the car and automobility. This book is essential in grasping how local change and local transition to sustainable mobility are possible and indeed how car use can be sustainable."
Dennis Zuev, Professor, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China and Senior Researcher, Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, Portugal.
"This book provides a timely contribution to our understanding of sustainable mobility transitions. Nitschke provides us with an empirically grounded account that analyses the intersection of technology and community. In doing so he gives us a theoretically rich post-structuralist account that analyses the agency of technological actants in re-shaping practices at both individual and communal scales. A much needed contribution to current debates that will be of interest to anyone interested in greening mobility."
Justin Spinney, Ph.D., School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University