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From the Right to Mobility to the Right to the Mobile City: Playfulness and Mobilities in Bogot??'s Cycling Activism

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12582?af=R Abstract

This article responds to a preference for short"?term history in research on the infrastructure turn by engaging with the longue dur?e of East Africa's latest infrastructure scramble. It traces the history of LAPSSET in Kenya and the Central Corridor in Tanzania, revealing the coloniality of new and improved transport infrastructure along both corridors. This exercise demonstrates how the spatial visions and territorial plans of colonial administrators get built in to new infrastructure and materialise in ways that serve the interests of global capital rather than peasant and indigenous peoples being promised more modern, prosperous futures. The article concludes by suggesting that a focus on the longue dur?e also reveals uneven patterns of mobility and immobility set in motion during the colonial scramble for Africa and reinforced after independence. These "colonial moorings" are significant as they shape political reactions to new mega"?infrastructure projects today and constrain the emancipatory potential of infrastructure"?led development.

» Author: 2> <p>This paper takes cycling activism in Bogotá (Colombia) as a point of departure to conceptualise the right to the mobile city. Mobility is a key site of intervention for claiming the right to the city, but has so far only been considered in

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