Public spheres on the move: the embodied deliberation of cycling in Los Angeles

Across Los Angeles, mass bike events have exploded in popularity and regularly stop cars to allow thousands of bodies to move together through the city. We argue that such "mobility events" are shared physical practices that embody political deliberation. By challenging dominant regimes of...

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Published in:	Space & polity Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 59 - 74
Main Authors:	Johansson, Pernilla, Liou, Stacey
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon Routledge 02-01-2017 Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Bicycling Cycling embodied practices Interdisciplinary approach interpretive methods Los Angeles California Mobility Political power Political science Public spaces public sphere United States Los Angeles California
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Summary:	Across Los Angeles, mass bike events have exploded in popularity and regularly stop cars to allow thousands of bodies to move together through the city. We argue that such "mobility events" are shared physical practices that embody political deliberation. By challenging dominant regimes of power, they create public spheres "on the move", concretely and conceptually. While these publics have emancipatory potential, this potential is ambivalent because embodied practices can still reinforce social divisions. Our interdisciplinary approach, in conjunction with interpretive methodologies, contributes to the mobilities and political science literatures by tying together the structural factors and everyday practices at play in sociopolitical phenomena.
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ISSN:	1356-2576 1470-1235
DOI:	10.1080/13562576.2016.1259111