Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
Recently, I had the opportunity to hear Matt Root, an avid bike rider and dad of two toddlers present a session called ‘Going Dutch, cargo bikes for kids’ – and it was really great! His presenation focused on what life on a biek and in the city is like from the point of view of …
This post goes out to lil’ Nina Sarah Divine Kamara! Happy 1st birthday!!! Your Aussie extended family is sending you lots of love! Last year I was in Ghana and Sierra Leone for my girls’ bicycles-for-education PhD fieldwork. I spent most of my time in Lunsar, Sierra Leone riding, living and learning with my fantastic …
This blog is no stranger to bicycle tattoos. In earlier posts, I have looked at: Cycle ink (Part 1): the good, the interesting and the unusual Cycle Ink (Part 2): bike tattoo symbolism from a tattooist’s POV Thigh Bicycle Tattoos: bike tattoos on a very particular body part! Temporary Bicycle Tattoos: for the curious, but …
Recently I’ve been preoccupied with maps. Maps are ubiquitous and we’ve all used them at some stage: schematic maps of bus routes, locating ‘you are here’ to explore a city, finding the nearest train station, driving to a new destination or going on holiday. As a bike rider, I use maps to check and navigate …
This post is a shout out to the community I did my bike PhD fieldwork with – and a call to action to help them when they need it most. Regular readers of this blog know that earlier this year I went to Sierra Leone, West African to do my fieldwork. My research partners with …
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Here is the fourth and last in the US bicycle politics review essay series written by Dr Jennifer Bonham. This review detailed three key texts. The first post outlined the socio-political context to set the scene. The second post reviewed the book ‘Pedal Power: The quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life’ while …
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Welcome back to this second post in a series of four taken from Dr Jennifer Bonham’s Bicycle Politics Review Essay IDEAS IN MOTION: ON THE BIKE. In the last post, Dr Bonham (Uni of Adelaide) provided an introduction and background for this essay and established the histo-politico-social context. This post reviews the first (of three) …
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