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In this paper, we will focus our attention on the analysis of urban activism. We will analyze the ways of living of bicycle activists, more specifically the emotions they display, the policies they articulate and the identities they rethink. We will try to understand how their subjectivities arise and strengthen, tracing the importance of concepts such as body, technology and mobility. Methodologically, we will use qualitative techniques such as ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews and life history. Analyzing their speeches and describing their everyday life, ethnography will allow us to understand how activists produce other ways of living that try to resist -practically and symbolically-the cultural logic of neoliberalism. Finally, this work shows how a sociology and anthropology of emotions becomes useful to address contemporary processes of subjectivation in the field of social movements, and concludes that emotion, politics and identity are incessantly assembled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The bicycle is probably the most effective and rational transportation mode for urban travel, besides walking. However, cycling only represents a small percentage of the modal division of urban travel. In this article, based on an analysis of national and European data, we present an analytical reading of the factors that contribute to the promotion of urban cycling. Five factors are identified: urban characteristics, the natural environment, socio-economic factors, psychological factors, and the generalized cost of cycling. Increasing knowledge of these factors is essential to the effective promotion of urban cycling, for which urban and regional planning plays a fundamental role, equal to or even more important than the role of transportation planning. Although travel distance is probably the biggest determinant of urban cycling, the articulation of cycling with a good public transport network will allow an increase in both travel modes, as these modes of transport are complementary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Worldwide there are approximately 3,308 records of landmine victims during a year. 67% of them suffered injuries which require physical rehabilitation. This paper presents a data acquisition system for landmine victims rehabilitation, interfaced with a videogame, which enables to interact with a racing game. The therapist can set the minimum speed required for the rehabilitation and analyze the forces and speed developed while pedaling. The conceptual development incorporates a commercial static bicycle, sensors to measure the pedaling force, an optic sensor to measure the speed, and command buttons to control the videogame. In order to evaluate the system, the sensors were characterized and tested, and a survey was conducted to 20 physiotherapists in order to evaluate the perception of ergonomics, safety and possible benefits of the data acquisition system for rehabilitation of landmine victims. 70%, 90% and 80% of the physiotherapists, respectively, assessed these characteristics as High level. Moreover, at least 85% of them are agree with nine possible benefits for rehabilitation of landmine explosion victim. Therefore, it is proposed that the data acquisition system can be used as a serious game that supports rehabilitation therapies of people with a prosthesis due to this cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasingly widespread of the use of bicycles as an alternative transportation has caused profound changes in the cities' public spaces. This article focuses on explaining the controversies around the public policies design of bike lanes and city bicycles that promote non-motorized transportation in Quito. From a socio-technical perspective this work uses three levels of analysis: the context in which policy is formulated, the construction of the bicycle as a socio-technical artifact and its use on the streets, and the closure of the controversies of the relevant groups about the impulse of the bike path as a tool of non-motorized transport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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While the bicycle has not changed much since the end of the nineteenth century, the world around it -fashion, customs, technology, ideology, material culture, political and economic systems- has changed. The bicycle was a part of many aspects of Italian life (work, sports, politics, leisure) for various decades and its social meaning changed over the years. This article analyzes the bicycle during the fascist dictatorship: the transformation of its social meaning and its relationship with public space. It highlights the values, strategies of power, hierarchies, tensions, and contradictions of the society and the regime, proposing a way to read them that is useful for understanding other contexts and eras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]