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Taylor and Francis Ltd Alternative (Im)Mobilities 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Nogueira, Maria Alice
By introducing the new concept of alternative (im)mobilities, this collection draws attention to a different approach to mobility practices. In doing so, this ground-breaking volume explores a range of issues related related to (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic, transport and social practices, and media and urban tourism. Designed and organized in a legally or illegally way, alternative (im)mobilities are examples of those daily practices of displacement of people, objects, and information, which mobilize a multidisciplinary framework of urbanization, shedding light on important and long-standing issues of inequality and the lack of recognition of diversity in economics, social and culture urban life. This volume opens up a new set of research questions related to the complex ways in which informal actors cope with their everyday life experience, regarding dwelling, commuting, working, caring of vulnerable people, health issues, access to information, among other mobility practices, besides the lack of essential - and infrastructural - public services.This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in geography and the social sciences interested in mobilities, transport, communication, tourism, mobility justice and inequality, public decision making and health studies. Introduction: Alternative (im)mobilities 1. When public health policies fail: Community management in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo 2. An alternative for whom? Buenos Aires' school commuting and the "bicycle boom" in pandemic time 3. Cyclelogistics & uberization: Challenges and transformative actions to improve delivery cyclists' work conditions 4. Caring Cities: The urgent concerns after apparent immobility in southern cities 5. Gendered perspectives in mobility and safety in public transport. The case of motorcycle taxis (boda boda) in Kisumu City, Kenya 6. Informal mobility in the Alemao Complex, Rio de Janeiro 7. Peripheries on the move: New urban grammars and epistemic disputes over center-periphery borders in Sao Paulo 8. Rearrangements and trajectories: Italian-Brazilian ice-cream parlor workers in Germany in Covid-19 times 9. Favela virtual tour: Alternative mobilities in favela tourism during Covid-19 pandemic 10. After the #stayhome, "live like a local": Towards alternative urban tourism mobilities?