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A Swiss research-project launched in 2015, attempts to write a mobility history for Switzerland between 1848 and the present. The project focuses on the mobility of individuals: Their mobility needs, their attitudes towards mobility,... more
A Swiss research-project launched in 2015, attempts to write a mobility history for Switzerland between 1848 and the present. The project focuses on the mobility of individuals: Their mobility
needs, their attitudes towards mobility, their access to the mobility system and so on will be analysed in a comprehensive way. For that purpose, a theoretical framework was developed which integrates important and well known concepts discussed in the field of the so-called “New Mobilities Paradigm”. In addition to that and in due consideration of the empirical restrictions of historical research mentioned above, a model of human action, originally developed in a Swiss transdisciplinary research program by Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, proved to be useful. One of the advantages of this model – which incorporates some of the most important findings of ecological and social psychology – is the systematic linking of the internal structure of individual actors (their perceived reality, intentions, goals and knowledge) with the external structure (physical environment, legal political and administrative institutions, socio-cultural and socio-economic
background).
needs, their attitudes towards mobility, their access to the mobility system and so on will be analysed in a comprehensive way. For that purpose, a theoretical framework was developed which integrates important and well known concepts discussed in the field of the so-called “New Mobilities Paradigm”. In addition to that and in due consideration of the empirical restrictions of historical research mentioned above, a model of human action, originally developed in a Swiss transdisciplinary research program by Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, proved to be useful. One of the advantages of this model – which incorporates some of the most important findings of ecological and social psychology – is the systematic linking of the internal structure of individual actors (their perceived reality, intentions, goals and knowledge) with the external structure (physical environment, legal political and administrative institutions, socio-cultural and socio-economic
background).