Edited by
Thomas Buhler, University Marie and Louis Pasteur, France.
ISBN : 9781789452273
Publication Date : December 2025
Hardcover 250 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
“Being mobile is more than just traveling”. Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances.
However, as research on daily mobility advances, a better understanding of the social and symbolic significance of such practices emerges. All of this contributes to the fact that daily mobility is not just a means to an end but is often at the very heart of deeply ingrained lifestyles and habits.
With contributions from internationally recognized specialists, this book provides an overview of the different facets of the individual experience of mobility. Using a three-pronged approach, the book draws upon the experience of everyday time and long-term processes such as socialization to mobility, while also attempting to better understand what feeds mobile subjectivities, starting with the social representations of modes and habits that people develop throughout their lives.
Part 1. The Mobile Individual and Daily Time.
1. Mobility and Everyday Life, Vincent Kaufmann.
2. Time Experienced in Everyday Mobility: Perceptions, Uses and Values, Thomas Buhler.
3. Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space, Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée.
Part 2. Mobile Socializations, or the Effects of the Long Term.
4. Mobility Trajectories and Biographies: A Valuable Hybridization, Philippe Gerber.
5. Gendered Cycling Socializations of Future Mobile Adults, David Sayagh.
6. Cycling in the City: Situated Practices and Unequal Policies, Matthieu Adam.
Part 3. Mobile Subjectivities: Representations and Effects of Habits.
7. Modal Choice and Representations of Transport Modes, Florian Masse and Samuel Carpentier-Postel.
8. Not Just a Detail: Modal Habit as Central to Everyday Mobility, Julia-Pearl Aveline and Thomas Buhler.
9. Responsive Adaptations to Traffic Congestion: A Matter of Habit?, Thomas Buhler and Gaële Lesteven.
Thomas Buhler is Professor of Urban Planning at the University Marie and Louis Pasteur, France. His research focuses on urban lifestyles in relation to daily mobility, strategies of urban planning stakeholders, and participatory methodologies in urban planning.
