Z7891 Everyday mobility

Faculty of Science
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jiří Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Robert Osman, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Wed 9:00–10:50 Z6,02006
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
Z7891/01: Wed 11:00–11:50 Z6,02006, J. Malý, O. Mulíček, R. Osman
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to introduce spatial mobility as a significant phenomenon affecting spatial organization, functioning and differentiation of contemporary society. The subject aims include: (1) familiarizing students with the role of mobility in the formation of time-space patterns of everyday life, (2) discussion of socio-technological conditions of mobility behavior, as well as (3) analysis of current public policies and planning tools responding to increased social the importance of spatial mobility.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to have a critical geographic view of the complicated topic of mobility. They will be able to differentiate between different forms of mobility, different theoretical approaches to mobility, and will be able to formulate basic tools for mobility policies.
Syllabus
  • Box 1: Everydayness and routine movement
  • 1a. The role of mobility in shaping everyday life, the theoretical basis and the context of research.
  • 1b. Geography of Home: Root on site and time, synchronization, synchronization, and translokalism.
  • 1c. Free time mobility: fun, pleasure, sports, shopping, leisure; social role of mobility.
  • 1d. Mobility of work, context, scale and time-space patterns.
  • Framework 2: Mobile technologies and their acquisition, cyborg
  • 2a. Cyborgisation of society: the relationship between technology and body, everyday technologies and applications.
  • 2b. Technological conditionality of spatial experience: shoes, clothing, white stick, wheelchair.
  • 2c. Automotive versus mass transportation, information technology, the gift of travel time.
  • 2d. Cultural conditionality of automobility, automotive and space (non)justice.
  • Box 3: Planning and public mobility policies
  • 3a. Sustainable Mobility Plans - Context, Goals, Processes; the concept of smart cities.
  • 3b. Discourse Mobility in Territorial and Strategic Planning - Actors, Themes and Conflicts.
  • 3c. Universal design of space: stroller, stick, cart, wheels in public space.
Literature
    required literature
  • VIGAR, Geoff. The politics of mobility : transport, the environment and public policy. 1st pub. London: Spon Press, 2002, 248 s. ISBN 0415259177. info
  • Mobile methods. Edited by Monika Büscher - John Urry - Katian Witchger. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011, xv, 206. ISBN 9780415492423. info
    recommended literature
  • ADEY, Peter. Mobility. 1st pub. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2010, xx, 267. ISBN 9780415434003. info
  • FREUDENDAL-PEDERSEN, Malene. Mobility in daily life : between freedom and unfreedom. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, [vii], 155. ISBN 9781138260153. info
  • Geographies of mobilities : practices, spaces, subjects. Edited by Tim Cresswell - Peter Merriman. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011, xii, 276. ISBN 9780754673163. info
  • POOLEY, Colin G., Jean TURNBULL and Mags ADAMS. A mobile century? : changes in everyday mobility in Britain in the twentieth century. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005, xvi, 251. ISBN 9780754641810. info
  • VACKOVÁ, Barbora and Lucie GALČANOVÁ. Prostory domova (Spaces of Home). In Matoušek, Roman; Osman, Robert (eds.). Prostor(y) geografie. 1st ed. Praha: Vydala Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2014, p. 167-188. ISBN 978-80-246-2733-5. info
  • VIDOVICOVÁ, Lucie, Lucie GALČANOVÁ, Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ and Dana SÝKOROVÁ. Stáří ve městě, město v životě seniorů (Ageing in the City, City in the Life of Seniors). 1st ed. Praha, Brno: Sociologické nakladatelství, Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 372 pp. Studie. ISBN 978-80-7419-141-1. URL info
  • The cultures of alternative mobilities : routes less travelled. Edited by Phillip Vannini. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, xix, 279. ISBN 9780754676669. info
  • CRESSWELL, Tim. On the move : mobility in the modern Western world. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, xi, 327. ISBN 9780415952552. info
  • In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism. Edited by Nik Heynen - Maria Kaika - E. Swyngedouw. London: Routledge, 2006, xv, 271. ISBN 0415368286. info
  • Transit oriented development : making it happen. Edited by Carey Curtis - John L. Renne - Luca Bertolini. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009, xv, 291. ISBN 9780754691006. info
  • FRANTÁL, Bohumil, Jaroslav MARYÁŠ, Jakub JAŇURA, Pavel KLAPKA, Josef KUNC, Eva NOVÁKOVÁ, Robert OSMAN, Tadeusz SIWEK, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Petr TONEV and Václav TOUŠEK. Prostorové chování: vzorce aktivit, mobilita a každodenní život ve městě. (Spatial behaviour: activity patterns, mobility and everyday life in a city.). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 140 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5756-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5756-2012. info
Teaching methods
Teaching takes place in the form of theoretical lectures and exercises, in which three compulsory texts are discussed and three practical tasks are solved independently. Basic teaching methods include frontal lectures, literature reading, text analyzes, group discussions and independent work.
Assessment methods
Prerequisite for successful completion of the course is reading of three obligatory texts, elaboration of three practical tasks and active participation in exercises. The course ends with an oral colloquium that verifies the ability to apply the concepts of daily mobility to public policies and to their own research practice.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2012 - acreditation, spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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