Sharing Mobilities
New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society
Networked Urban Mobilities Series

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.

1. Sharing Mobilities and the Mobile Risk Society. An Introduction

Sven Kesselring, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Dennis Zuev

2. Virtual Exchange-based Mobilities: Platform Economy, Exchange and Culture

Bridgette Wessels

3. Tourist Practices in the Sharing System of Web 2.0: The Case of Taiwanese Couchsurfers

De-Jung Chen

4. A Carrier Bag Story of (Waste) Food, Hens and the Sharing Economy

Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland

5. Governing Urban Accessibility: Moving Beyond Transport and Mobility

Philipp Rode, Nuno F. da Cruz

6. Are you Being Shared? Mobility, Data and Social Relations in Shanghai’s Public Bike Sharing 2.0 Sector

Justin Spinney, Wen I Lin

7. Co-existence of Multiple Temporalities: Ruptured Shared Mobilities in the Tokyo Metro

Kaima Negishi,

8. The Dream of a Shared Autonomous Vehicle

Vincent Kaufmann

9. Recruitment, Stabilization and Defection: Exploring Car-sharing Pathways of Young Urban Households

Tom E. Julsrud, Cyriac George, Eivind Farstad

10. Commercialising the xe om:Motorbike Taxis, GrabBike and Shared Mobilities in Hanoi

Arve Hansen, Nguyen Tuan Anh, Luu Khanh Linh

Sven Kesselring is a German sociologist. He studied sociology, political science, and psychology and holds a PhD in sociology from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a doctoral degree (habilitation) from Technische Universität München. Since 2015, he has had a research professorship in ‘Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities’ at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany and from 2011–15, he was Professor in ‘Mobility, Governance and Planning’ at Aalborg University, Denmark. Since 2004, he has been the Director of the international Cosmobilities Network (www.cosmobilities.net) and from 2014–16 he was Vice President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility (T2M).

In 2016 he became the Co-Editor of the Routledge journal Applied Mobilities (with Kevin Hannam and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen). He was a Research Fellow at Hans Böckler Foundation, Erich Becker Foundation and in 2003 he won a research grant from the German Research Association. From October 2017 to July 2018 he was Fellow-in-Residence at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research focuses on mobilities theory, social change and reflexive modernization, corporate mobilities regimes, urban sociology, auto- and multi-mobility, aeromobilities, and future research. Sven is the author of Aeromobilities (Routledge) with John Urry and Saulo Cwerner.

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Professor in Urban Planning and Sustainable Mobilities at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and the sociology of technology. Her research has been strongly inspired by the mobilities turn. Previously her work was primarily focused on investigating everyday life praxis’s of mobilities and in her book Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom was focused on the