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

In: A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice

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  • Govind Gopakumar

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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.

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  • Govind Gopakumar, 2024. "Putting the car in context: an agenda for technopolitical transitions in megacity mobilities," Chapters, in: Julie Cidell (ed.), A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice, chapter 12, pages 173-188, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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