Public Transport as Contested Space
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 23. July 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-350-35648-1 (ISBN)
Description
Often forgotten as an important political site for social contacts, public opinion, democracy, freedom and openness - characteristics which are frequently ascribed to streets and squares - this accessible and novel open access study puts public transport at the heart of political debates about public space.
Public transport can be an intensely sensory experience, leaving impressions both favourable and unfavourable on its users, and gathering around itself an extensive archive of representations since the early 19th-century. Bringing together contributions from a range of key scholars and public intellectuals, as well as literary texts, this volume offers a richly illustrated commentary on public transport as public space which combines theoretical analysis and practical case studies.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Public transport can be an intensely sensory experience, leaving impressions both favourable and unfavourable on its users, and gathering around itself an extensive archive of representations since the early 19th-century. Bringing together contributions from a range of key scholars and public intellectuals, as well as literary texts, this volume offers a richly illustrated commentary on public transport as public space which combines theoretical analysis and practical case studies.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
150 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-35648-1 (9781350356481)
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Persons
Jason Finch is Associate Professor in English Language and Literature at Abo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of books including Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and co-editor of Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021).
Louise Straeuli is a PhD candidate at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and in the Studies of Culture Programme at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research focuses on experiences and practices of daily mobility in urban areas and related socio-spatial inequalities.
Tauri Tuvikene is Professor of Urban Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is an author and co-editor of three edited collections with three more forthcoming, including Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (2019), Decolonial Approaches to Urban Transport (2020) and Language and Space (2020).
Tonio Weicker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. His research focuses on social inequalities caused by urban transport modernisation policies in Central and Eastern European countries.
Wladimir Sgibnev is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany. He has co-edited collections on post-socialist urban infrastructures and on polarisation and peripheralisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, and authored book chapters and articles appearing in Antipode, Transport Geography, or the Journal of Transport History.
Wojciech Keblowski is a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the editor of collections in leading journals of urban and transport studies, including Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Transport Geography, and Geoforum. He has published in Urban Geography, Environment and Planning C, and Transportation.
Louise Straeuli is a PhD candidate at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and in the Studies of Culture Programme at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research focuses on experiences and practices of daily mobility in urban areas and related socio-spatial inequalities.
Tauri Tuvikene is Professor of Urban Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is an author and co-editor of three edited collections with three more forthcoming, including Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (2019), Decolonial Approaches to Urban Transport (2020) and Language and Space (2020).
Tonio Weicker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. His research focuses on social inequalities caused by urban transport modernisation policies in Central and Eastern European countries.
Wladimir Sgibnev is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany. He has co-edited collections on post-socialist urban infrastructures and on polarisation and peripheralisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, and authored book chapters and articles appearing in Antipode, Transport Geography, or the Journal of Transport History.
Wojciech Keblowski is a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the editor of collections in leading journals of urban and transport studies, including Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Transport Geography, and Geoforum. He has published in Urban Geography, Environment and Planning C, and Transportation.
Editor
Abo Akademi University, Finland
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
Tallinn University, Estonia
Tallinn University, Estonia
Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
Content
Introduction
Section 1: Life on Public Transport: Historical and Cultural Development
Section 2: Unexpected Encounters, Diverse Publics
Section 3: Official Control and Civil Awareness: Regulation and Contestation
Section 4: Human and Non-Human Interaction: Materialities
Section 6: Commentaries
Bibliography
Index
Section 1: Life on Public Transport: Historical and Cultural Development
Section 2: Unexpected Encounters, Diverse Publics
Section 3: Official Control and Civil Awareness: Regulation and Contestation
Section 4: Human and Non-Human Interaction: Materialities
Section 6: Commentaries
Bibliography
Index