ABSTRACT
My work with mobility and transport has focused on everyday life. In this work, I have visited various transport companies, had discussions and completed research on sustainable cities with policy and planning researchers. This has been very valuable and improved my understanding of the materiality and politics of mobility. In this chapter, I wish to elaborate on some of these issues, which are all closely related to, and interdependent on, everyday life mobility. It seems unnecessary to state that everyday life, policy and planning – and thus the materiality of mobility – are highly interconnected, since sustaining and changing mobility habits and patterns is a societal matter. When working with individual’s everyday life habits, the question often arises: how to change individuals transport habits? My aim is not to provide an exhaustive response to this question. I do, however, wish to share the ideas, visions and utopias I have come across, and suggest where work on changing the autologic’s grip on late modern times can start.
