Highlights ► Travel behaviour research can benefit from conceptualisations of habit from beyond psychology. ► Habit is more than automatically cued repetition; it is a propulsive, generative tendency. ► Behaviour change is about working with rather than against existing habits. ► Breaking high-carbon habits necessitates durable changes to socio-technical systems. ► The rise of low-carbon habits and spontaneity within high-carbon habits need to be fostered.

    Abstract With the emergence of behaviour change on political and intellectual agendas in passenger transport, the question of how to understand and intervene in habitual carbon-intensive travel practices has become crucially important. Building primarily on the philosophies of Félix Ravaisson and John Dewey, we outline an approach to travel habits that is more affirmative than prevailing psychological perspectives. Rather than as the automatically cued, repetitive behaviour of individuals, habit is understood here as a generative and propulsive capacity brought about through repetition and belonging to body–mind–world assemblages that exceed the human individual as conventionally understood. The implications of the proposed conceptualisation of habits for behaviour change are also explored. We argue that widespread, durable behaviour change is unlikely to result from the displacement of automaticity by reasoned action alone but instead demands changes in collective customs. Additionally, a narrow focus on breaking carbon-intensive travel habits should be avoided. Not only should the formation of low-carbon habits and associated forms of embodied intelligence be stimulated; it is also important to capitalise on the potential for subtle change inherent to carbon-intensive travel habits in situations where individualised vehicular travel is the only realistic transport option.


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    Titel :

    Rethinking habits and their role in behaviour change: the case of low-carbon mobility


    Beteiligte:
    Schwanen, Tim (Autor:in) / Banister, David (Autor:in) / Anable, Jillian (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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