Cycling Cultures Research Project

"On the Outside": constructing cycling citizenship
Rachel Aldred
Social & Cultural Geography, 2010, 11(1) pp. 35 - 52 (based on pilot work)
From the abstract: 'This paper uses in-depth interview data from Cambridge, England, to discuss the concept of the 'cycling citizen', exploring how, within heavily-motorised countries, the practice of cycling might affect perceptions of the self in relation to natural and social environments....'
A final version of the paper is [here], access-controlled. Or click [here] for author's version, freely available.

Constructing mobile places between ‘leisure’ and ‘transport’: a case study of two group cycle rides
Rachel Aldred and Katrina Jungnickel
In press, Sociology
From the abstract: 'This paper contributes to a growing literature examining the sociological significance of mobile places, exploring mobile place-making through an analysis of the practice of weekend group leisure cycling. These rides represent a mobility practice where the main aim of participants may be 'leisure' but most infrastructure used is designated for 'transport'...'
This paper will be published in Sociology; a pre-peer review version is [here].

See also: reports on Cycling Policy, Cycle Training, and Cargo Bikes.

From Failed Consumers to Good Producers? Cycling subjectivities, governmentality, and affect
Rachel Aldred and Katrina Jungnickel
This paper examines the changing construction of cycling with relation to changing systems of production and consumption. Cycling used to be the sign of a 'failed consumer' in Bauman's terms: in the age of mass car ownership, is this changing, and how?

iPod zombie or sensory cyclist? Sensory strategies, cycling practices and the changing nature of attention and distraction.
Katrina Jungnickel and Rachel Aldred
From the abstract: '...The article takes as its starting point media accounts of cyclists with iPods as 'zombies' and drawing on research in Hull and Hackney sets out to (1) locate 'sensory strategies' in mobilities literature, (2) examine sensory inequalities in relation to mobility choice and (3) describe how cyclists mediate their exposure to the sensory environment....' [More].

DIY Bike: UK cyclists, tinkering practices and mobile responsibility in a mass motorized society
Katrina Jungnickel
From the abstract: '...Drawing on ethnographic and interview-based research conducted for the ESRC funded Cycling Cultures research project (2010-2011), I use the bike as a lens into the mundane, everyday practices of being mobile...' [More].

Cycling, Culture, Place and Policy: making the connections
Rachel Aldred This paper draws on Raymond Williams' idea of a 'structure of feeling' to compare cycling cultures in our four areas and draw conclusions for policy.

Governing Transport from Welfare State to Hollow State: the case of cycling in the UK
Rachel Aldred '...analyses UK cycling policy in the context of a shift towards a hollowed-out neoliberal state...

Incompetent, or too competent? Negotiating everyday cycling identities in a motor dominated society
Rachel Aldred
[More] . To be published in Mobilities.

The role of advocacy and activism in shaping cycling policy and politics
Rachel Aldred
Commissioned for an edited book on cycling and sustainability. [More]

New Mobilities/Sustainable Transport
Rachel Aldred
Commissioned for the Routledge Handbook of social and environmental change. [More].

The Commute
Rachel Aldred
Commissioned chapter for The Routledge Handbook of mobilities.

Plus short commissioned articles in Red Pepper, Mobility magazine, London Cyclist, and Britain in 2012.