A new politics of mobility: Commoning movement, meaning and practice in Amsterdam and Santiago

Scholars have argued that transitions to more sustainable and just mobilities require moving beyond technocentrism and rethinking the very meaning of mobility in cities and societies. This paper demonstrates that such rethinking is inherently political and requires engagement with wider debates on the politics of transitions. In particular, we focus on recent theorisations of the commons and sharing practices that have gained traction in geographic and urban studies literatures. Drawing on our global comparative research on low-carbon mobility transitions, this paper argues that critical mobilities scholars can rethink and expand the understading of mobility through engagement with commons thinking, and develops a new concept, ‘commoning mobility’, that can help realise fairer and greener mobilities and more inclusive, collaboratively governed cities.