Conceptualising Active Transmobilities as Infrastructure: A Research Agenda

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Very little work sofar has explored trans and LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of active travel,compared to an emerging scholarship covering public transport systems. Thispaper draws on recent queer and feminist scholarship to propose an infrastructuralapproach to researching transgender mobilities and specifically ‘activetransmobilities’. This infrastructural approach centres relational flows ofcare and neglect that constitute the material, social, and experientialdimensions of mobility spaces. It seeks to reframe gender equalities away froman individualistic, box-ticking approach to policy, instead foregroundingconnections between people, spaces, and technologies, and exploring howintersectional differences shape spatially differentiated experiences of activetravel. The paper reflects on originalcreative mapping and interview data constructed with transgender inhabitants ofBrighton & Hove, UK, to empirically ground a consideration of thespecificities and politics of transmobilities as part of wider research andpolicy agendas of active travel and mobility justice. It concludes byconsidering how moving towards a more care-full agenda within active travel andtransmobilities research can contribute to active travel research and to transliberation.