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Mobile caringscapes: Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden
Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5209-0904
School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5268-8957
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Society, environment and transport, Mobility, actors and planning processes.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8074-3634
2025 (English)In: Mobilities, ISSN 1745-0101, E-ISSN 1745-011X, Vol. 20, no 1, p. 1-17Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The welfare state planning of the Nordic countries can be said to have been carried out as political acts of state care and concern of (some of) their citizens, to tackle poverty and poor housing conditions, and provide more equal living conditions for the whole population. The Million Programme Housing Project (MP) was an ambitious project carried out to combat housing shortage in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s, which also resulted in traffic separation, car-free courtyards and housing blocks, and recreational green infrastructure. By analysing accounts of walking in 47 interviews around the everyday mobilities of 31 families living in three disadvantaged MP areas in three cities in Sweden, we suggest that the walking practices can be regarded as 'caringscapes'. The narratives of the participants illuminate how walking is both self-care, other-care, and neighbourhood-care. Taken together, these different facets of 'caringscapes' of walking are further discussed in relation to walking as an enacted and practiced infrastructure of care. This conceptual framework of care captures the different experiential facets of walking and highlights the embodied, interdependent, and relational aspects of walking.

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Routledge, 2025. Vol. 20, no 1, p. 1-17
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Walking, families, caringscapes, infrastructures of care, disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Sweden
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URN: urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-21118DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2371598ISI: 001266519600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85198130296OAI: oai:DiVA.org:vti-21118DiVA, id: diva2:1884253
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-01900Available from: 2024-07-15 Created: 2024-07-15 Last updated: 2026-03-23Bibliographically approved

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