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Changing Mobilities
ALTERNATIVE (IM)MOBILITIES
Edited by Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira
Alternative (Im)Mobilities
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 to (im)mobili-
ties and the COVID-19 pandemic, transport and social practices, and media
and urban tourism.
Designed and organized in a legal or illegal way, alternative (im)mobili-
ties are examples of those daily practices of displacement of people, objects,
and information, which mobilize a multidisciplinary framework of urban-
ization, 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 up with their everyday life
experience regarding dwelling, commuting, working, caring of vulnerable
people, health issues, access to information, among other mobility prac-
tices, besides the lack of essential – and infrastructural – public services.
This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in geog-
raphy and the social sciences interested in mobilities, transport, commu-
nication, tourism, mobility justice and inequality, public decision-making,
and health studies.
Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira is Professor in the School of Communica-
tion at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ), Brazil. Her
research focuses on the interconnections between (im)mobility, communica-
tion, advertising, and marketing. She is currently a member of two research
groups, Mobilities, Theory, Topics and Methods (MTTM) and The Rhetoric
of the Consumption (ReC). She holds a PhD degree in History, Politics and
Culture from the Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary
History of Brazil at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CPDOC-FGV RJ), Brazil,
and a master’s degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio), Brazil.
Changing Mobilities
This series explores the transformations of society, politics, and everyday
experiences wrought by changing mobilities, and the power of mobilities
research to inform constructive responses to these transformations. As a
new mobile century is taking shape, international scholars explore moti-
vations, experiences, insecurities, implications, and limitations of mobile
living, and opportunities and challenges for design in the broadest sense,
from policy to urban planning, new media, and technology design. With
world citizens expected to travel 105 billion kilometres per year in 2050, it is
critical to make mobilities research and design inform each other.
Series Editors: Monika Büscher, Peter Adey
Brazilian Mobilities
Edited by Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira and Camila Maria dos Santos Moraes
Made to Work
Mobilising Contemporary Worklives
Breda Gray, Luigina Ciolfi and Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho
Hybrid Mobilities
Transgressive Spatialities
Edited by Nadine Cattan and Laurent Faret
Making Mobilities Matter
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
The Freedom Riders Across Borders
Contentious Mobilities
Barbara Lüthi
Alternative (Im)Mobilities
Edited by Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/
Changing-Mobilities/book-series/CHGMOB
Alternative (Im)Mobilities
Edited by
Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira
First published 2023
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nogueira, Maria Alice de Faria, editor.
Title: Alternative (im)mobilities / edited by Maria Alice Nogueira.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Changing mobilities | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2022003736 (print) | LCCN 2022003737 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032124292 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032124315 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003224518 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Urban transportation. | Choice of transportation. |
Migration, Internal.
Classification: LCC HE305 .A4195 2022 (print) | LCC HE305 (ebook) |
DDC 388.4--dc23/eng/20220128
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022003736
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ISBN: 9781032124292 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781032124315 (pbk)
ISBN: 9781003224518 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003224518
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of maps ix
List of contributors x
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Alternative (im)mobilities 1
MARIA ALICE DE FARIA NOGUEIRA
1 When public health policies fail: Community management
in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Paraisópolis,
São Paulo 7
MARIA ALICE DE FARIA NOGUEIRA AND ANDREA MARIA ABREU BORGES
2 An alternative for whom? Buenos Aires’ school commuting
and the “bicycle boom” in pandemic time 22
DHAN ZUNINO SINGH AND MAXIMILIANO VELÁZQUEZ
3 Cyclelogistics and uberization: Challenges and transformative
actions to improve delivery cyclists’ work conditions 36
VICTOR ANDRADE, PEDRO BASTOS, AND FILIPE MARINO
4 Caring cities: The urgent concerns after apparent immobility
in southern cities 50
PAOLA JIRÓN MARTÍNEZ
5 Gendered perspectives in mobility and safety in public transport:
The case of motorcycle taxis (boda boda) in Kisumu City, Kenya 64
GLADYS NYACHIEO AND CALVINE KAYI
vi Contents
6 Informal mobility in the Alemão Complex, Rio de Janeiro 79
CAMILLE REISS
7 Peripheries on the move: New urban grammars and epistemic
disputes over centre-periphery borders in São Paulo 102
GUILHERMO ADERALDO
8 Rearrangements and trajectories: Italian-Brazilian ice-cream
parlour workers in Germany in COVID-19 times 113
DIANE PORTUGUEIS
9 Favela virtual tour: Alternative mobilities in favela tourism
during COVID-19 pandemic 126
CAMILA MARIA DOS SANTOS MORAES, BERNARDO DE LA VEGA,
FABIAN FRENZEL, ISABELLA REGA, AND JULIANA MAINARD-SARDON
10 After the #stayhome, “live like a local”: Towards alternative
urban tourism mobilities? 138
THIAGO ALLIS AND ANA CAROLINA PADUA MACHADO
Index 154
Figures
2.1 A male delivery worker looking for “safe” ways to take
his daughter to school 29
2.2 A woman with a tricycle adapted for safe mobility.
On another occasion, this mother was carrying two girls 31
3.1 An “uberized” day-to-day delivery cyclist routine 40
3.2 A cyclist rides a shared bike as he waits for a delivery request
in downtown Rio de Janeiro 43
6.1 A van of Alemão Complex 80
6.2 Mototaxi station called Metro de Inhaúma, Alemão Complex 80
6.3 Adeus Hill, Alemão Complex 88
6.4 Van of group A, Alemão Complex 89
6.5 Mototaxi station called Das Casinhas, Alemão Complex 94
10.1 Main clusters of the bibliographic production on AirBnB
and urban issues 142
10.2 Intra- and peri-urban tourism scheme 143
Tables
5.1 Riders’ perception on how passengers should sit
on a boda boda 69
6.1 Data on informal transport in Rio de Janeiro, 1990–2005 85
6.2 Vans and Kombis data of the Alemão Complex 90
6.3 Mototaxis data of the Alemão Complex 96
10.1 New real estate developments (São Paulo) 146
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Maps
2.1 Distribution of primary schools and the cycling network
in Buenos Aires City. The area where we did our observations
is marked by a grey circle 24
6.1 Alemão Complex location in the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro 81
6.2 Informal transport of Alemão Complex, Rio de Janeiro 87
6.3 Informal transport accessibility in the Alemão Complex,
Rio de Janeiro 93
8.1 Map with the location of Urussanga, in the south of the state
of Santa Catarina, in south of Brazil 114
10.1 AirBnB listings at República District (São Paulo) 147
