Think piece Trauma and the vehicular-cycling campaigner Based on my experience as a campaigner and advocate for cycling infrastructure, I would like to express an idea on the linkage between trauma and vehicular-cycling campaigning. Recently participating at a meeting of the German cycling organisation (city-level meeting), I made a few observations about the behaviour of… Read More Abstract: Trauma and Cycling
Title: Decision makers’ lines of argument with respect to democratising cycling Corresponding author: Katja Leyendecker Institution/organization: Northumbria University, Newcastle UK Format: 20-minute presentation Abstract As part of my autoethnographic PhD project (investigating women activists’ experience of local cycling politics) I interviewed key decision makers in Newcastle (UK) and Bremen (Germany). Using narrative discursive analysis, I… Read More Abstract: Decision makers’ lines of argument with respect to democratising cycling
Local cycle campaigning – an activist-academic reports Katja Leyendecker, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK Preferred format: presentation ABSTRACT It is important that academics recognise and appreciate cycle campaigners. It is equally important that cycle campaigners understand academics. As an autoethnographer and activist-academic I have both academically observed and actively participated in cycle campaigning over several years.… Read More Abstract for Scientists for Cycling 2019
ABSTRACT – Assembling seven years of activism experience Katja Leyendecker Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK) As part of my auto/ethnographic PhD project “women activists’ experience of local cycle politics” (2019, forthcoming) I used a number of qualitative methods including blogging, interviews and policy analysis. I also collated a video diary that would enable me to tell… Read More Abstract “Assembling seven years of activism experience”
Method in the madness – autoethnography against automobility The Advocacy and Academia exchange day in Newcastle, UK, in 2015, resolved that story telling is a vital tool to advancing the cause of urban mass cycling. In my presentation I ask: “How well is academia equipped to create narratives that matter?” I will report about the… Read More Abstracts – Cycling & Society / ECF Scientists for Cycling
Submitted 5 February 2018 for consideration at 2018 The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference at Cardiff University, from Tuesday 28 to Friday 31 August 2018. The chair’s theme for the 2018 Annual Conference is Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography – subset: empirical or conceptual papers on cycling inequalities, justice, power relations… Read More Abstracts
Making the personal political – overlaps in feminist theory and cycle activism Proposer: Katja Leyendecker, Northumbria University, Newcastle UK Relevant themes: equality ABSTRACT I start from the point that a lack of conceptual oversight is one major trap that cycle activism can be ensnared in – especially at a time when democracy and democratic processes… Read More Abstract for Cycling & Society 2017
Cycling is an efficient mode of transport in urban areas and should be supported through spatial prioritisation and inclusion to enable people to cycle in comfort and safety. Space-change projects however can be controversial as recent high profile cases have shown in New York (Sadik-Khan & Solomonow, 2016) or London (The Guardian, 2016) where road… Read More Abstract for ICC 2017
Getting more women cycling, but how? Proposer: Katja Leyendecker, Northumbria University, Cycling Embassy of Great Britain & newcycling.org (UK) Relevant themes: People, Governance ‘Getting more people cycling’ is a common plea made by transport authorities and cycle advocacy groups alike. It is a plea for social, environmental and economic justice. It is a plea to… Read More Abstract for VeloCity2017
Nudging towards a communal concept for cycling research Proposer: Katja Leyendecker, Northumbria University, Newcastle UK Relevant themes: Planning and Policy, Engineering and Infrastructure, Socio-Anthropological Keywords: social change, transport politics, conceptual model, framework, transport cycling The Scientific Colloquium is part of Velocity 2017 in Arnhem-Nijmegen Motivation: Velomobility (Koglin, 2014) has been knocking on the door of… Read More Abstract for Scientific Colloquium
here and there and nowhere
Radfahren und Gehen sollten wichtige Bestandteilen der Verkehrspolitik sein
The UK government has declared that they are "ending The War On The Motorist". These are our correspondents' dispatches from the front lines of their policies.
From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere...
Well it should be, shouldn't it?
A thorn in the side of the UK's road designers
spatial fairness
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