Public Transport as Contested Space

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.

Auteur
Jason Finch is Associate Professor in English Language and LIterature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of books including Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and co-editor of Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021).Wojciech Keblowski is a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles. 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.Wladimir Sgibnev is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography. He has been co-editor of collections on post-socialist urban infrastructures (Routledge) and on polarisation and peripheralisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave), and author of book chapters and articles including Antipode, Transport Geography, or the Journal of Transport History.*Louise Sträuli is a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles and in the Studies of Culture Programme at Tallinn University. 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. 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.

Contenu
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