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Peter Cox is professor of sociology at the University of Chester, UK, where he teaches sociology and politics. His research focuses on cycling mobilities, crossing disciplines from sociology to postdevelopment studies and connecting both cultural and political perspectives. He is particularly interested in the experiential dimensions of cycling and walking and how these affect and inform decision-making from personal to policy levels. Peter’s PhD in philosophy from the University of Liverpool (2001) investigated Gandhian models of social change and their interaction with radical ecological perspectives. He was previously a visiting scholar at the RCC as a Leverhulme International Academic Fellow (2014/15), and conducted interdisciplinary research into bicycling and the environment using video and sensory ethnography. His current project explores how experiences of cycling and other active mobilities can build values and sensitivities required for rethinking citizenship in the anthropocene.
RCC Research Project: Care, Commons, and Uncontrollability: Cycling as Transformative Interaction
Selected Publications:
- Bike Activism: Cycling as a Social Movement. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming.
- “Vélomobility Is to Degrowth as Automobility Is to Growth: Prefigurative Cycling Imaginaries.” Applied Mobilities (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2022.2087134.
- “Distance, Time, Speed & Energy: A Socio-Political Analysis of Technologies of Longer Distance Cycling.” Active Travel Studies 2, no. 2 (April 2022). https://doi.org/10.16997/ats.1064.
- “Sensory Ethnography and Film Interpretation: Sociological Readings of Historical Archives.” In Transport and Its Place in History: Making the Connections, edited by David Turner. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
- edited with Till Koglin. The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure. Bristol: Policy Press, 2020.
- Cycling: Toward a Sociology of Vélomobility. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.