Putting the car in context: an agenda for technopolitical transitions in megacity mobilities

Govind Gopakumar

Chapter 12 in A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice, 2024, pp 173-188 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Recent initiatives to promote low-carbon urban mobility in Bengaluru, a burgeoning megacity in south-central India with over 10 million vehicles to ferry an estimated 14 million residents, graphically illustrate the politics of automobility. Two vignettes - one on bus transportation and the second on street redesign - are instructive in understanding how automobility persists despite sustained efforts to crack it open. On the basis of these vignettes, I call for a politicized transition in mobility that centres justice by embracing technologies which explicitly articulate politics that counter the overwhelming dominance of automobility.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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