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Project Details
Description
Public transport research remains dominated by economistic and technocratic readings and remains peripheral in the humanities literature. Yet, public transport embraces intense and intimate sites for encountering cultural diversity, facilitating social integration and negotiating public space.
PUTSPACE examines public transport as one type of public space, challenging existing definitions of public space. The project will explore how public transport confronts citizens with social diversity, speaks of different types of ownership, surveillance, subversion, interaction and transformation of social norms. We articulate this conceptualisation through four objectives:
to critically conceptualise and analyse what kind of public space public transport is;
to understand urban transformations of public space in European cities – leading to increased social diversity and polarisation, liberalisation, privatisation and securitisation – by attending to public transport as particularly intense and contentious set of public spaces;
to offer a located and historicised perspective on the transformation of public space by examining narratives, experiences and contestations connected with public transport in different European cities; and
to contribute to public transport-related research, as well as to intervene in civic mobilising, planning and policy via a humanities-led analysis and conceptualisation of public transport.
The project brings researchers from across Europe together with transport practitioners, enthusiasts, civil activists and curators, benefiting from a strong involvement of Associated Partners. In so doing, the project aims to have an impact that is both academic and societal, humanising public transport research and practice.
The project brings researchers from across Europe together with transport practitioners, enthusiasts, civil activists and curators, benefiting from a strong involvement of Associated Partners. In so doing, the project aims to have an impact that is both academic and societal, humanising public transport research and practice.
PUTSPACE examines public transport as one type of public space, challenging existing definitions of public space. The project will explore how public transport confronts citizens with social diversity, speaks of different types of ownership, surveillance, subversion, interaction and transformation of social norms. We articulate this conceptualisation through four objectives:
to critically conceptualise and analyse what kind of public space public transport is;
to understand urban transformations of public space in European cities – leading to increased social diversity and polarisation, liberalisation, privatisation and securitisation – by attending to public transport as particularly intense and contentious set of public spaces;
to offer a located and historicised perspective on the transformation of public space by examining narratives, experiences and contestations connected with public transport in different European cities; and
to contribute to public transport-related research, as well as to intervene in civic mobilising, planning and policy via a humanities-led analysis and conceptualisation of public transport.
The project brings researchers from across Europe together with transport practitioners, enthusiasts, civil activists and curators, benefiting from a strong involvement of Associated Partners. In so doing, the project aims to have an impact that is both academic and societal, humanising public transport research and practice.
The project brings researchers from across Europe together with transport practitioners, enthusiasts, civil activists and curators, benefiting from a strong involvement of Associated Partners. In so doing, the project aims to have an impact that is both academic and societal, humanising public transport research and practice.
Layman's description
In this project, ‘Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting’ (PUTSPACE), we aim to humanise transport research by studying diverse narratives, experiences and contestations of public transport, as they have been unfolding in cities across Europe since the late nineteenth century. The project places public transport at the frontline of contesting what is, can be, or should be public in the city.
Acronym | PUTSPACE |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 01/05/19 → 28/02/23 |
Links | http://www.putspace.eu http://heranet.info/projects/public-spaces-culture-and-integration-in-europe/public-transport-as-public-space-in-european-cities-narrating-experiencing-contesting/ |
Funding
- European Research Council: €933,434.00
Keywords
- public transport
- public space
- literary history
- cultural history
- London, literature of
- Turku, history of
Activities
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'Trams and Dusty Trees': Literary Modernism and London's Electric Tramways, 1901-31
Jason Finch (Speaker)
9 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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Post-Victorian Tremors: Urban Mobility in Woolf’s The Years
Jason Finch (Speaker)
17 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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‘A Number 9 Demonstrates Why Trams Would Not Survive’: How Public Transport Closure Representations Serve Political Ends
Jason Finch (Speaker)
21 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference presentation
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Learn How to Smile: Relationships between rabbits, other passengers and public transport workers
Laine, S., Apr 2022Research output: Other contribution
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Kakkosen reittejä: Matkalla kotikaupungissa
Laine, S., 12 May 2021, Turun romantikko: Esseitä Hannu Salmelle. Saarelainen, J., Rantala, H., Paju, P. & Oiva, M. (eds.). Turku: Turun yliopisto, p. 200-208 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Open Access -
Lines Through Public Transport and Public Space
Finch, J. & Tuvikene, T., 15 Mar 2021, Lines. Peterle, G. (ed.). Padua: BeccoGiallo, p. 5-6Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific
Press / Media
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Han läser staden - från gatans asfalt till det som finns i våra tankar
01/11/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Fragile Cities, Transatlantic and Post-Industrial: A Study in Urban Humanities
01/08/20 → 31/03/22
Project: Foundation