Presented by Robert Egan School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland. 7 th September 2018, Cycling & Society Symposium, Bristol.
} Cyclists disproportionately at risk of road traffic injury or fatality compared to motorists and pedestrians } Record low in overall national road fatalities 2017 } Decreased motorist, pedestrian and motorcyclist fatalities } 50% increase in cyclist fatalities (Road Safety Authority 2018)
} Grounded Theory } Initial curiosity & openness } 28 qualitative interviews with utility cyclists in Dublin } Core category conceptualised
} The road is experienced as a site of precarious entitlement } Cyclists entitled to space as a road user in theory, yet, in practice, exercising such entitlement is precarious due to conditions of precariousness: ◦ Insecure Space ◦ Spatial Disregard ◦ Police Neglect
} Acts of provocation take place across road spaces– the sites of precarious entitlement } Modes of Provoking Responsibility ◦ Accentuating Presence ◦ Asserting Entitlement ◦ Indicating Transgression
1. Accentuating Presence
2. Asserting Entitlement
3. Indica*ng Transgression
} Negotiation & Citizenship in Public Space (Philips 2010; Bauman 2000; Sennett 1977) } Politics of Space (Harvey 2009) } Conditions of & resistance to Hegemonic Automobility (Urry 2004)
} Bauman, Z., 2000. Liquid Modernity . Polity, Cambridge. } Harvey, D., 2009. Social justice and the city . University of Georgia Press, Athens. } Phillips, S.D., 2010. Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine . Indiana University Press, Bloomington. } Road Safety Authority, 2018. Provisional Review of Fatal Collisions: January to December 31st 2017 [Online] . Available from: http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Fatal%20Collision%20Stats/Provisional_Reviews_ of_Fatal_Collisions/RSA%20Provisional%20Review%20of%20Fatalities%2031%20 December%202017.pdf: [Accessed August 2018] } Sennett, R., 1977. The Fall of Public Man . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. } Urry, J., 2004. The ‘System’ of Automobility. Theory, Culture and Society, 21 (4/5), pp.25–39.
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