Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes - Softcover

Sheller, Mimi

 
9781788730921: Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1788730925 ISBN 13: 9781788730921
Verlag: Verso Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day

We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement.

Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, city, nation, and planet in one overarching theory of the modern, perpetually shifting world. Concepts of mobility are examined on a local level in the circulation of people, resources, and information, as well as on an urban scale, with questions of public transport and “the right to the city.” On the planetary level, she demands that we rethink the reality where tourists and other elites are able to roam freely, while migrants and those most in need are abandoned and imprisoned at the borders.

Mobility Justice is a new way to understand the deep flows of inequality and uneven accessibility in a world in which the mobility commons have been enclosed. It is a call for a new understanding of the politics of movement and a demand for justice for all.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the author of Democracy after Slavery, Consuming the Caribbean, Citizenship from Below, and Aluminum Dreams.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1788730925
ISBN 13 
9781788730921
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
222
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