Thinking about Changing Mobility Practices: How a Social Practice Approach Can Help

TY - CHAP

T1 - Thinking about Changing Mobility Practices

T2 - How a Social Practice Approach Can Help

AU - Nettleton, Sarah

AU - Green, Judith

PY - 2014/8/25

Y1 - 2014/8/25

N2 - Policy and practice in the UK and many other countries has addressed this lack of active mobility, with two main arenas as the focus: encouraging sports participation and, more recently, encouraging active transport, such as cycling and walking. This chapter draws upon Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice, which offers a route beyond the theoretical dualism and the potential for making a sociological contribution to public health debates. It begins with a sketch of Bourdieu's theory of practice, paying particular attention to the epistemological and methodological implications for sociological analyses of changing health behaviour. As a case study, it then explores three modes of transformations in practice that the author labels: unthinkable, thwarted and resisted, which are drawn from secondary analysis of two empirical studies to demonstrate the potential of a Bourdieusian approach to the analysis of mobility as social practice. Chapters

AB - Policy and practice in the UK and many other countries has addressed this lack of active mobility, with two main arenas as the focus: encouraging sports participation and, more recently, encouraging active transport, such as cycling and walking. This chapter draws upon Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice, which offers a route beyond the theoretical dualism and the potential for making a sociological contribution to public health debates. It begins with a sketch of Bourdieu's theory of practice, paying particular attention to the epistemological and methodological implications for sociological analyses of changing health behaviour. As a case study, it then explores three modes of transformations in practice that the author labels: unthinkable, thwarted and resisted, which are drawn from secondary analysis of two empirical studies to demonstrate the potential of a Bourdieusian approach to the analysis of mobility as social practice. Chapters

KW - Active mobility

KW - Outline of a Theory of Practice

KW - Pierre Bourdieu

KW - Social practice

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84927683366&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/9781118898345.ch8

DO - 10.1002/9781118898345.ch8

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84927683366

SN - 9781118898345

SN - 9781118898390

SP - 82

EP - 94

BT - From Health Behaviours to Health Practices: Critical Perspectives

PB - WILEY-BLACKWELL

ER -