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A Violent Regime: Men, Masculinities and Road Conflicts in Sweden
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5268-8957
2018 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This presentation focuses on violence(s) in traffic space as a gendered problem. It draws on qualitative online studies and interviews with cyclists about their experiences of motorists’ violent practices, including cyclists’ negotiations of anti-cyclist discourses and their coping strategies. It follows that modal conflicts is not only a problem for cities with a low prevalence of cycling; ‘bike friendly’ cities like Copenhagen and Stockholm are also troubled by fights between cyclists and drivers (Freudendal-Pedersen 2015; Koglin 2013). Such conflicts are gendered in complex ways.

Automobility appears to be a ‘violent regime’ (Joelsson 2013), a regime that produces uncaring, oppressive and violent configurations of men and masculinity (cf. Hanlon 2009). However, there are no clear-cut gendered frameworks to be applied. Such violence cannot be understood within a binary gendered framework; there is neither clearly a typical victim position nor a gendered perpetrator position. It is argued that automobility makes it possible for certain men to perform their ‘right to the road’, including gender-identity-shaping practices, and that this has the negative effect of violating cyclists’ bodily integrity. It follows that a shift from cars to more sustainable mobilities also demands related shifts in masculinities and men’s practices in the context of transport and traffic.

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2018.
Keywords [en]
gender, violence, masculinity, bicycling, sweden
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83376OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-83376DiVA, id: diva2:1444305
Conference
Non-motorized mobility - Walking and Biking. Workshop no.2: Gendering Smart Mobility, organized by: Coordination for Gender Research, Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen; Swedish National Road and Transport, Research Institute; Norwegian Centre for Transport Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 21, 2018
Available from: 2020-06-21 Created: 2020-06-21 Last updated: 2020-07-24Bibliographically approved

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