Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition

Luca Nitschke completed his Ph.D. at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and Nürtingen-Geislingen University as a member of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, located at the Chair for Urban Structure and Transport Planning at the Technical University of Munich. He works at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt. His research interests lie in the relationship between mobilities practices, capitalism and processes of change.He studied Environmental Sciences in Bielefeld and Environmental Studies in Barcelona, Aveiro, Aalborg and New York City, and he is a founding member of the Center for Emancipatory Technology (ZET), Basel.

• 1 Capitalist Mobilities, Sharing Mobilities and the Need for Reconfiguring the Everyday 2 Empirical Introduction: Investigating Community Carsharing 3 Reconstituting Automobility: Changing the Meanings of the Car and (Auto)Mobility 4 Re-Embedding Automobility: Ecological Critique and Counterhegemonic Practice Interlude: The Collective and Organizational Character of Everyday Life 5 "We Do It Together for Us": Community, Collective Identity and Social Re-Embedding 6 Commoning Mobility: Community Carsharing and Changing Ownership 7 Community Carsharing and the Social–Ecological Mobility Transition

"With this strong empirical account of community carsharing, Luca Nitschke offers rich insights into the nitty-gritty details and problems of changing mobility on the micro-scale. Convincingly arguing for a new culture of mobility, he also points to the intricacies and necessary frictions of socio-technical transformations on the macro-scale."Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Science Studies and Innovation Research, Hamburg University"Luca Nitschke brilliantly investigates the scarcely researched practice of non-commercial community carsharing. The case allows a grounded critique of the capitalist logic of modern automobility and commercial carsharing and thus provides a much needed and fresh understanding of causal mechanisms behind practicing carsharing and explores in a systematic way the shifting meanings of the car and automobility. This book is essential in grasping how local change and local transition to sustainable mobility are possible and indeed how car use can be sustainable."Dennis Zuev, Professor, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China and Senior Researcher, Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, Portugal."This book provides a timely contribution to our understanding of sustainable mobility transitions. Nitschke provides us with an empirically grounded account that analyses the intersection of technology and community. In doing so he gives us a theoretically rich post-structuralist account that analyses the agency of technological actants in re-shaping practices at both individual and communal scales. A much needed contribution to current debates that will be of interest to anyone interested in greening mobility."Justin Spinney, Ph.D., School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University