Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The paper delves into how cycling transforms our relationship to the world. It investigates the potential of cycling infrastructure design to increase the sentient capacities and the ambient sensibility of mobile actors. Through ride-along interviews with regular utilitarian cyclists in the Paris Region of France, the research uncovers the affective and sensory relationship to cycling infrastructure and the environment. This relationship is characterised by a tension between paradoxical values, traditionally associated with social constructions of differentiated gender categories, of (1) modern emancipation (individualist, conquering) and (2) environmental consciousness (care and attention extending not only to oneself but also to the vulnerability of others, animals and vegetal species). Cycling practices, and the pleasures derived from engaging in the urban environment, challenge and reshape the dominant hierarchy of values in patriarchal society. |
