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Dr Justin Spinney
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
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I am an urban cultural geographer and economic sociologist broadly interested in the intersections between mobility, embodiment, environmental sustainability and technology. These interests are underpinned by a political-economic focus on the production and maintenance of power and inequality and the application of post-structuralist theories including Social Practice Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Non Representational Theory and Actor Network Theory. My research progresses this agenda through four intersecting themes: (i) the governance of mobility; (ii) affect, emotion and sensory geographies; (iii) visual culture, design and technology; and (iv) mobile methods.
In addition to informing my teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, these research interests have resulted in a number of high quality research publications and conference presentations. They are currently being taken forward in the cross-council funded PRICELESS Design project. Running from October 2013 - 2016 the project seeks to understand how we can enhance older people's experience of cycling in relation to the built environment. Having completed pilot research I am also currently working on a proposal to better understand interactions between HGV drivers and cyclists in urban areas. This project not only seeks to map the sensory experiences of these divergent practices but ultimately to re-shape the design of the HGV.
Cyhoeddiad
2021
- Lin, W. and Spinney, J. 2021. Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai. Urban Studies 58(10), pp. 2095-2116. (10.1177/0042098020937945)
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2021. A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: the politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai’s dockless public bike sharing sector. Journal of Transport Geography 94, article number: 103129. (10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103129)
2020
- Spinney, J. 2020. Understanding urban cycling: exploring the relationship between mobility, sustainablity and capital.. Routeledge.
2019
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2019. (Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: the production and economisation of cycling culture in pursuit of accumulation. Mobilities 14(4), pp. 524-544. (10.1080/17450101.2019.1580003)
2018
- Xie, L. and Spinney, J. 2018. “I won’t cycle on a route like this; I don’t think I fully understood what isolation meant”: A critical evaluation of the safety principles in Cycling Level of Service (CLoS) tools from a gender perspective. Travel Behaviour and Society 13, pp. 197-213. (10.1016/j.tbs.2018.07.002)
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2018. Are you being shared? Mobility, data and social relations in Shanghai's Public Bike Sharing 2.0 sector. Applied Mobilities 3(1), pp. 66-83. (10.1080/23800127.2018.1437656)
2016
- Boyer, K. and Spinney, J. 2016. Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(6), pp. 1113-1131. (10.1177/0263775815622209)
- Spinney, J. 2016. Fixing mobility in the neoliberal city: Cycling policy and practice in London as a mode of political–economic and biopolitical governance. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106(2), pp. 450-458.
2015
- Spinney, J., Aldred, R. and Brown, K. 2015. Geographies of citizenship and everyday mobility. Geoforum 64, pp. 325-332. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.013)
- Spinney, J., Kullman, K. and Golbuff, L. 2015. Driving the 'Starship Enterprise' through London: constructing the (im)moral driver-citizen through HGV safety technology. Geoforum 64, pp. 333-341. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.014)
- Spinney, J. 2015. Close encounters? Mobile methods, (post)phenomenology and affect. Cultural Geographies 22(2), pp. 231-246. (10.1177/1474474014558988)
2012
- Spinney, J., Green, N., Burningham, K., Cooper, G. and Uzzell, D. 2012. Are we sitting comfortably? Domestic imaginaries, laptop practices, and energy use. Environment and Planning A 44(11), pp. 2629-2645. (10.1068/a44403)
- Spinney, J., Burningham, K., Cooper, G., Green, N. and Uzzell, D. 2012. 'What I've found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied': Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the laptop sector. Journal of Consumer Culture 12(3), pp. 347-370. (10.1177/1469540512456928)
2011
- Spinney, J. 2011. A chance to catch a breath: Using mobile video ethnography in cycling research. Mobilities 6(2), pp. 161-182. (10.1080/17450101.2011.552771)
2010
- Brown, K. and Spinney, J. 2010. Catching a glimpse: the value of video in evoking, understanding and representing the practice of cycling. In: Fincham, B., McGuiness, M. and Murray, L. eds. Mobile Methodologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 130-151.
- Spinney, J. 2010. Improvising rhythms: Re-reading urban time and space through everyday practices of cycling. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 113-128.
- Spinney, J. 2010. Performing resistance? Re-reading practices of urban cycling on London's South Bank. Environment and Planning A 42(12), pp. 2914-2937. (10.1068/a43149)
- Spinney, J. 2010. Mobilising sustainability: partnership working between a pro-cycling NGO and local government in London. In: Peters, M., Fudge, S. and Jackson, T. eds. Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 89-107.
2009
- Spinney, J. 2009. Cycling the city: movement, meaning and method. Geography Compass 3(2), pp. 817-835. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00211.x)
2008
- Spinney, J. 2008. Cycling between the traffic: mobility, identity and space. Urban Design 108(Autumn), pp. 28-30.
2007
- Spinney, J. 2007. Cycling the city: non-place and the sensory construction of meaning in a mobile practice. In: Horton, D., Rosen, P. and Cox, P. eds. Cycling and Society. Transport and Society Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 25-46.
2006
- Spinney, J. 2006. A place of sense: a kinaesthetic ethnography of cyclists on Mont Ventoux. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(5), pp. 709-732. (10.1068/d66j)
Articles
- Lin, W. and Spinney, J. 2021. Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai. Urban Studies 58(10), pp. 2095-2116. (10.1177/0042098020937945)
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2021. A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: the politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai’s dockless public bike sharing sector. Journal of Transport Geography 94, article number: 103129. (10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103129)
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2019. (Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: the production and economisation of cycling culture in pursuit of accumulation. Mobilities 14(4), pp. 524-544. (10.1080/17450101.2019.1580003)
- Xie, L. and Spinney, J. 2018. “I won’t cycle on a route like this; I don’t think I fully understood what isolation meant”: A critical evaluation of the safety principles in Cycling Level of Service (CLoS) tools from a gender perspective. Travel Behaviour and Society 13, pp. 197-213. (10.1016/j.tbs.2018.07.002)
- Spinney, J. and Lin, W. 2018. Are you being shared? Mobility, data and social relations in Shanghai's Public Bike Sharing 2.0 sector. Applied Mobilities 3(1), pp. 66-83. (10.1080/23800127.2018.1437656)
- Boyer, K. and Spinney, J. 2016. Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(6), pp. 1113-1131. (10.1177/0263775815622209)
- Spinney, J. 2016. Fixing mobility in the neoliberal city: Cycling policy and practice in London as a mode of political–economic and biopolitical governance. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106(2), pp. 450-458.
- Spinney, J., Aldred, R. and Brown, K. 2015. Geographies of citizenship and everyday mobility. Geoforum 64, pp. 325-332. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.013)
- Spinney, J., Kullman, K. and Golbuff, L. 2015. Driving the 'Starship Enterprise' through London: constructing the (im)moral driver-citizen through HGV safety technology. Geoforum 64, pp. 333-341. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.014)
- Spinney, J. 2015. Close encounters? Mobile methods, (post)phenomenology and affect. Cultural Geographies 22(2), pp. 231-246. (10.1177/1474474014558988)
- Spinney, J., Green, N., Burningham, K., Cooper, G. and Uzzell, D. 2012. Are we sitting comfortably? Domestic imaginaries, laptop practices, and energy use. Environment and Planning A 44(11), pp. 2629-2645. (10.1068/a44403)
- Spinney, J., Burningham, K., Cooper, G., Green, N. and Uzzell, D. 2012. 'What I've found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied': Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the laptop sector. Journal of Consumer Culture 12(3), pp. 347-370. (10.1177/1469540512456928)
- Spinney, J. 2011. A chance to catch a breath: Using mobile video ethnography in cycling research. Mobilities 6(2), pp. 161-182. (10.1080/17450101.2011.552771)
- Spinney, J. 2010. Performing resistance? Re-reading practices of urban cycling on London's South Bank. Environment and Planning A 42(12), pp. 2914-2937. (10.1068/a43149)
- Spinney, J. 2009. Cycling the city: movement, meaning and method. Geography Compass 3(2), pp. 817-835. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00211.x)
- Spinney, J. 2008. Cycling between the traffic: mobility, identity and space. Urban Design 108(Autumn), pp. 28-30.
- Spinney, J. 2006. A place of sense: a kinaesthetic ethnography of cyclists on Mont Ventoux. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(5), pp. 709-732. (10.1068/d66j)
Book sections
- Brown, K. and Spinney, J. 2010. Catching a glimpse: the value of video in evoking, understanding and representing the practice of cycling. In: Fincham, B., McGuiness, M. and Murray, L. eds. Mobile Methodologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 130-151.
- Spinney, J. 2010. Improvising rhythms: Re-reading urban time and space through everyday practices of cycling. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 113-128.
- Spinney, J. 2010. Mobilising sustainability: partnership working between a pro-cycling NGO and local government in London. In: Peters, M., Fudge, S. and Jackson, T. eds. Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 89-107.
- Spinney, J. 2007. Cycling the city: non-place and the sensory construction of meaning in a mobile practice. In: Horton, D., Rosen, P. and Cox, P. eds. Cycling and Society. Transport and Society Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 25-46.
Books
- Spinney, J. 2020. Understanding urban cycling: exploring the relationship between mobility, sustainablity and capital.. Routeledge.
Ymchwil
I am an urban cultural geographer and economic sociologist broadly interested in the intersections between mobility, embodiment, environmental sustainability and technology. These interests are underpinned by a political-economic focus on the production and maintenance of power and inequality and the application of post-structuralist theories including Social Practice Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Non Representational Theory and Actor Network Theory. My research progresses this agenda through four intersecting themes:
(i) The governance of mobility
This theme seeks to understand the marginalization of particular styles of mobile practice; particularly the role of space, legal frameworks, design tools, planning regulations and embodied movement in disciplining mobile subjects and governing processes of inclusion and exclusion in urban spaces.
(ii) Affect/ emotions/ sensory geographies
My interests here lie in how sensory and affective capacities (such as anxiety, fear, comfort) are produced; how they are (re)shaped through the life-course, and by gender, ethnicity and geography; how they escalate, and how they relate to energy using practices, particularly with regard to mobile and domestic practices and housing design.
(iii) Visual culture, design and technology
The theme explores the role of design and technology - particularly visual and mobile technologies - in shaping experience and producing subjectivities and identities; the role of designers and consumer facing business functions in constructing, mediating and translating product qualities; and the processes through which consumers translate between social and economic registers.
(iv) Mobile methods
I have a critical interest in the extent to which the study of mobility requires new and adapted methods. In particular the use of video and visual methods, the use of GPS, qualitative GIS and new sensor technology to both evoke and represent non-representable aspects of mobile practice.
Projects
Oct 2013-2016: 'Promoting Independent Cycling for Enhancing Later-life Experience and Social Synergy through Design' (PrICELESS Design). EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC 'Lifelong Health and Wellbeing' theme. £1.3 million, Co-I with Dr Tim Jones (PI Oxford Brookes), Kiron Chaterjee (Co-I UWE) & Emma Street (Co-I Reading).
April - May 2012: 'HGV and Cyclist Interactions' - University of East London Research Development fund. £5,000.
March 2011-2012: 'Making Mobile Mothers' Royal Geographical Society Small Grant. £2,970.
PhD Supervision
2010 - Present: Laura Golbuff ESRC-UKTRC funded PhD exploring the impact of Cycle Blogs on policy knowledges in the cities of London and New York (second supervisor with Dr Rachel Aldred at Westminster University).
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Qualifications
- BA Geography, Environment, and Development, University of Sussex 1998
- MA Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, 2003
- PhD Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, 2008
