Anthropocene Mobilities

Emanating from an established scholarly track of cycling sociology, Peter Cox argues for a new global environmental and planetary ethics of individuals and institutions in a world of increasing global problems – Anthropocene citizenship – and specifies it for a different mobility behavior – Anthropocene Mobilities. This book will pilot you from a variety of pathways towards Anthropocene citizenship to the congruously necessary degrowth of motor mobilities. Thus, it will provide even adept mobility scholars with new perspectives and inspirational stepstones. * Tadej Brezina, TU Wien Institute of Transportation *Professor Cox brilliantly deconstructs the deeply entrenched automobile-dominated transportation planning paradigm, offering a nuanced, interdisciplinary approach to reimagining cities, systems, public spaces, and mobility. This work transcends traditional transportation research by integrating critical yet undermined and overlooked perspectives on power, social equity, and the human experience, providing a transformative framework for understanding systems - and therefore system change. By challenging existing norms in academia and practice, Cox offers a compelling and empowered vision for the future of research: as academics, as researchers studying sustainable mobility, we can no longer not take a stand. * Meredith Glaser, professor of cycling, Ghent University, Belgium *

Peter Cox is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Chester, UK.