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Prof. Dr. Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Aalborg University

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Research article
Published: 21 December 2020 in Mobilities
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Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colleagues in public space or in professional encounters, disappeared overnight. Free movement became significantly restricted all over the world. It seemed that immobility, social and physical distancing, and isolation were the only antidote to the fast-moving virus. For many people, working from home while also schooling their children and providing social care at a distance, peak activity at maximum physical immobility became the “new normal.” A culture emerged where rules and norms of mobilities previously taken for granted were re-negotiated and re-defined. Before the crisis and despite the negative ecological side effects, mobility has been positively connotated as a signifier for progress and success. Under the Corona regime mobility turned into a life-threatening risk. The theory of reflexive modernization, risk society and the mobilities paradigm are used to discuss these contemporary shifts and transformations.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society. Mobilities 2020, 16, 81 -95.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring. What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society. Mobilities. 2020; 16 (1):81-95.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. 2020. "What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society." Mobilities 16, no. 1: 81-95.

Journal article
Published: 03 September 2020 in Sustainability
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The issue of creating more sustainable mobility systems has been revisited during the past 50 years. So far, we are still waiting for an innovative systemic change that is not simply an iteration of existing technologies. This standstill is to a large degree due to the hegemonic mobility paradigm, working under a “predict and provide”-driven approach, with little attention being paid to environmental and social externalities. This paper calls for a new understanding of mobility transition interlinked with the cultural values of modern societies, deeply rooted in the mobile risk society. To create sustainable mobility practices we need robust, socially coherent, and inclusive mobility systems that are more than just transportation systems and connections. The empirical starting point is a visionary workshop on designing “Sustainable Innovative Mobility Solutions” in three urban areas in Copenhagen. The workshop created a cross-disciplinary space for actors to meet across dominant silos and acknowledge the need for intervention framings to focus on innovation as a matter of interlinking sustainable mobilities practices within everyday living in a mobile risk society.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Freja Friis; Malene Rudolf Lindberg; Thomas Grindsted. Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7218 .

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Freja Friis, Malene Rudolf Lindberg, Thomas Grindsted. Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7218.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Freja Friis; Malene Rudolf Lindberg; Thomas Grindsted. 2020. "Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7218.

Journal article
Published: 19 March 2020 in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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When discussing the future of cities, there is a tendency to focus on technology that will make cities and mobilities more sustainable. A bit further down the line the question of understanding or changing everyday practice arises – how to get people to transform their current mobility practice, or to adjust to the technologies introduced. As a key to understanding and changing practice I argue that storytelling plays a crucial role on different scales. In line with this, the concept of structural stories can be used to understand how specific framings of modes of transport guides everyday practices. To illustrate this, I will use the example of a concept of redesigning Copenhagen’s streets. On these streets space is redistributed so that pedestrians, cyclists and busses get more space, and more space is created for public places and city life. Consequently, the space allocated for cars and parking is scaled down.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Sustainable urban futures from transportation and planning to networked urban mobilities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2020, 82, 102310 .

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Sustainable urban futures from transportation and planning to networked urban mobilities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2020; 82 ():102310.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2020. "Sustainable urban futures from transportation and planning to networked urban mobilities." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 82, no. : 102310.

Book
Published: 01 January 2020 in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities
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Monika Büscher; Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities 2020, 1 .

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Monika Büscher, Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities. 2020; ():1.

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Monika Büscher; Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. 2020. "Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities." Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities , no. : 1.

Introduction
Published: 17 December 2019 in Mobilities
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What does utopian thinking have to offer students and scholars of mobility? Could ‘mobile utopias’ assist us in envisioning futures – including those of mobility – differently? Do utopias provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between mobile societies and lives and the environments against which these are formed? By providing different ways of reading and arguing within different theoretical frameworks and doing so in relation to the contexts their contributions engage, the articles included in this special issue explore the limits of what the mobile utopias of the future might be, their social and spatial dimensions, and their totalizing, fragmentary, or, personal definitions. As a whole, the issue contributes to the intellectual project of how to turn utopia into a method, as Levitas, Jameson, Harvey, and others have long encouraged us to do. With a few exceptions, utopias have not received the attention they deserve from mobilities scholars. Our aim in putting together this special issue is to redress this balance and invite further reflection on what utopian thinking might offer current debates in mobilities scholarship. This Introduction draws connections across approaches, foci, methods, geographies, and sources, including those deployed in the issue’s six articles, in the interest of excavating possible hopeful orientations through critique. Central to this is the recognition of the significance of critiquing the images of mobility which circulate widely (think of drones) and of the necessity to listen attentively to voices overlooked by mobility futures which stand far removed from the reactions and feelings of people in their everyday worlds. Ours is an invitation both to pay close attention to what utopian thinking does – rather than what utopia is – and to help us carve out a new intellectual space where to reflect on the how, when and where mobilities and utopias meet, now, but also in the past, and in the future.

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Carlos López-Galviz; Monika Büscher; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Mobilities and Utopias: a critical reorientation. Mobilities 2019, 15, 1 -10.

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Carlos López-Galviz, Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Mobilities and Utopias: a critical reorientation. Mobilities. 2019; 15 (1):1-10.

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Carlos López-Galviz; Monika Büscher; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2019. "Mobilities and Utopias: a critical reorientation." Mobilities 15, no. 1: 1-10.

Journal article
Published: 04 January 2019 in Sustainability
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Cities have changed their pulse, their pace, and reach, and the urban scale is an interconnected element of the global “network society” with new forms of social, cultural and economic life emerging. The increase in the amount and speed of mobilities has strong impacts on ecological conditions, and, so far, no comprehensive sustainable solutions are in sight. This paper focuses on the discussion around smart cities, with a specific focus on automation and sustainability. Discourses on automated mobility in urban spaces are in a process of creation and different stakeholders contribute in shaping the urban space and its infrastructures for automated driving in the near or distant future. In many ways, it seems that the current storylines, to a high degree, reinforce and (re)produce the “system of automobility”. Automobility is still treated as the iconic and taken-for-granted form of modern mobility. It seems that most actors from industry, planning, and politics consider it as being sustained through smart and green mobility innovations and modifications. The paper discusses the implication of these techno-policy discourses and storylines for urban planning. It presents preliminary results from ongoing research on policy promotion strategies of automated driving in the region of Munich, Germany.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring; Eriketti Servou. What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation. Sustainability 2019, 11, 221 .

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring, Eriketti Servou. What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (1):221.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring; Eriketti Servou. 2019. "What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 221.

Book chapter
Published: 25 October 2018 in Mobilities and Complexities
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[D]ifferent senses and different mobilities are organised in, and through, and sometimes against, various times and memories.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Time. Mobilities and Complexities 2018, 143 -147.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Time. Mobilities and Complexities. 2018; ():143-147.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2018. "Time." Mobilities and Complexities , no. : 143-147.

Journal article
Published: 02 January 2018 in Applied Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations. Applied Mobilities 2018, 3, 1 -7.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring. Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations. Applied Mobilities. 2018; 3 (1):1-7.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. 2018. "Sharing mobilities. Some propaedeutic considerations." Applied Mobilities 3, no. 1: 1-7.

Journal article
Published: 07 August 2016 in Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. Mobilities, Futures & the City: repositioning discourses – changing perspectives – rethinking policies. Mobilities 2016, 11, 575 -586.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring. Mobilities, Futures & the City: repositioning discourses – changing perspectives – rethinking policies. Mobilities. 2016; 11 (4):575-586.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring. 2016. "Mobilities, Futures & the City: repositioning discourses – changing perspectives – rethinking policies." Mobilities 11, no. 4: 575-586.

Research article
Published: 05 August 2016 in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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This article presents a research project on mobility management in Danish municipalities aimed at creating more sustainable mobilities. The project, called Formula M (2011–2014), worked within sciences, public and private sectors, and civil society. Often contemporary projects in both planning and designing sustainable mobilities fall short when it comes to changing praxis to limit CO2 emissions, where they just concentrate on technocratic elements. They often neglect the ‘why’ and ‘for what’ which is needed in order to drive such change. In the Formula M project, focus has been on supporting the planners involved in the project on their ‘why’ and ‘for what’. Based on a theoretical understanding of relational and collaborative planning the article contributes to an understanding of which approaches and methods can be used to facilitate the relationships and dialogues between many actors. Methodologically, this has been sought through a specific focus on the role of utopias as a tool for storytelling.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Aslak A Kjærulff; Lise Drewes Nielsen. Interactive environmental planning: creating utopias and storylines within a mobilities planning project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2016, 60, 941 -958.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Aslak A Kjærulff, Lise Drewes Nielsen. Interactive environmental planning: creating utopias and storylines within a mobilities planning project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 2016; 60 (6):941-958.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Aslak A Kjærulff; Lise Drewes Nielsen. 2016. "Interactive environmental planning: creating utopias and storylines within a mobilities planning project." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 60, no. 6: 941-958.

Book chapter
Published: 17 February 2016 in Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
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Ole B. Jensen; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Utopias of Mobilities. Utopia: Social Theory and the Future 2016, 197 -217.

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Ole B. Jensen, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Utopias of Mobilities. Utopia: Social Theory and the Future. 2016; ():197-217.

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Ole B. Jensen; Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2016. "Utopias of Mobilities." Utopia: Social Theory and the Future , no. : 197-217.

Meetings
Published: 02 January 2016 in Applied Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. A conversation on architecture and mobilities: materialities and humans. Applied Mobilities 2016, 1, 1 -7.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. A conversation on architecture and mobilities: materialities and humans. Applied Mobilities. 2016; 1 (1):1-7.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2016. "A conversation on architecture and mobilities: materialities and humans." Applied Mobilities 1, no. 1: 1-7.

Editorial
Published: 02 January 2016 in Applied Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Kevin Hannam; Sven Kesselring. Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities. Applied Mobilities 2016, 1, 1 -9.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Kevin Hannam, Sven Kesselring. Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities. Applied Mobilities. 2016; 1 (1):1-9.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Kevin Hannam; Sven Kesselring. 2016. "Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities." Applied Mobilities 1, no. 1: 1-9.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2015 in City & Society
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism: Structural Stories on Cycling in Copenhagen. City & Society 2015, 27, 30 -50.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism: Structural Stories on Cycling in Copenhagen. City & Society. 2015; 27 (1):30-50.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2015. "Cyclists as Part of the City's Organism: Structural Stories on Cycling in Copenhagen." City & Society 27, no. 1: 30-50.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2015 in City & Society
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Valentina Cuzzocrea. Cities and Mobilities. City & Society 2015, 27, 4 -8.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Valentina Cuzzocrea. Cities and Mobilities. City & Society. 2015; 27 (1):4-8.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Valentina Cuzzocrea. 2015. "Cities and Mobilities." City & Society 27, no. 1: 4-8.

Book chapter
Published: 17 February 2015 in The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Ethics And Responsibilities. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities 2015, 1 .

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Ethics And Responsibilities. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. 2015; ():1.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2015. "Ethics And Responsibilities." The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities , no. : 1.

Chapter
Published: 22 August 2013 in Elite Mobilities
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state. Elite Mobilities 2013, 221 -237.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state. Elite Mobilities. 2013; ():221-237.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2013. "Tracing the super-rich and their mobilities in a Scandinavian welfare state." Elite Mobilities , no. : 221-237.

Book review
Published: 14 May 2012 in Social & Cultural Geography
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Social & Cultural Geography 2012, 13, 422 -424.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Social & Cultural Geography. 2012; 13 (4):422-424.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2012. "Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects." Social & Cultural Geography 13, no. 4: 422-424.

Journal article
Published: 29 March 2011 in Dansk Sociologi
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Henri Lefebvre var optimist, han troede på det mulige. Denne optimisme og stærke tro på, at en anderledes verden er mulig, er af afgørende betydning, hvis vi skal i mødekomme de udfordringer, som klimaforandringerne skaber. Det senmoderne hverdagsliv betyder mange muligheder og aktiviteter, der skal overvejes og gennemføres. I håndteringen af dette hverdagsliv er det ofte bilen, der kommer til at fungere som det, der virkeliggør disse muligheder. Hvordan bilen som mobilitetsform har fået så stor en betydning, og hvordan vi eventuelt kan erstatte bilen med andre bæredygtige mobiliteter, diskuteres i denne artikel – inspireret af Lefebvres tro på de mulige umuligheder. Bæredygtig mobilitet bliver udråbt som vores mulige umulighed, hvis vi vil skabe sociale, økonomiske og miljømæssige bæredygtig byer. ENGELSK Malene Freudendal-Pedersen: Dare We Believe in Sustain-able Mobility – Lefebvre’s Possible Impossibilities Lefebvre was an optimist, he believed in the possible. This optimism and strong belief that a different world is possible is essential if we are to meet the challenges created by climate change. Late modern everyday life means that there are numerous opportunities and activities to be considered and implemented. In dealing with everyday life, the car is often the means that can actualize these opportunities. This article discusses how the car has become so important and how we might replace it with other sustainable mobilities. It is inspired by Le-febvre’s belief in possible impossibilities. Sustainable mobility is discussed as our possible impossibility in order to create social, economic and environmental sustainable cities.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Tør vi tro på bæredygtig mobilitet – Lefebvres mulige umuligheder. Dansk Sociologi 2011, 22, 69 -85.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. Tør vi tro på bæredygtig mobilitet – Lefebvres mulige umuligheder. Dansk Sociologi. 2011; 22 (1):69-85.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen. 2011. "Tør vi tro på bæredygtig mobilitet – Lefebvres mulige umuligheder." Dansk Sociologi 22, no. 1: 69-85.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2010 in Mobile Methodologies
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Lise Drewes Nielsen. Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity. Mobile Methodologies 2010, 25 -42.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Lise Drewes Nielsen. Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity. Mobile Methodologies. 2010; ():25-42.

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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Lise Drewes Nielsen. 2010. "Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity." Mobile Methodologies , no. : 25-42.