ABSTRACT
The final chapter returns to the theme of quiet activism and everyday resistance to examine a diverse series of examples where activists create their own spaces of action and take activism into new realms of everyday life. Examples include bike kitchens, feminist narrative approaches to cycling promotion, and ghost bikes. Non-confrontational activism may still be focused on and contributing to processes of change but recognises that social and political transformation cannot be restricted to action in the more familiar realms of protest and lobbying. Drawing on the idea of diffuse agency, the chapter deliberately contrasts a set of diverse and apparently unconnected sites and forms of cycle activism to demonstrate their coherence within a larger challenge to dominant mobilityscapes, which places personal experience and participation to the fore. The example provided by cycle activism is used to raise questions about how social movement studies as a discipline frames freedom and agency in relation to current action for change.
