Watch Mimi Sheller's lecture on Mobility Justice here!
Watch Mimi Sheller's lecture on Mobility Justice
On August 19th at KTH, Mimi Sheller gave a lecture arguing the need to better consider mobility justice in sustainable transport planning. She emphasized that true transitions require challenging green gentrification, climate coloniality, and reshaping power, infrastructure, and mobility cultures.
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The lecture "Planning for Mobility Justice: A Guide Towards Sustainable Mobility Futures" by Mimi Sheller was held at KTH August 19th.
While much attention has been given to planning for more sustainable mobilities
in response to climate change, Sheller argues that effective mobility transitions
must encompass wider mobility justice concerns. Urban planners and policymakers
are creating plans for safer streets, more active transport, and reduced car
dependence. Transport futurists proclaim revolutions in shared, electric,
connected, and autonomous vehicles, with debates on decarbonization and
”smart” infrastructure. Yet, these developments will promote sustainability only in
a very limited sense if they are not coupled with reconfigurations of wider
‘kinopolitical’ power relations and practices.
This talk explores how broader mobility justice efforts aim to challenge ’green
gentrification’, confront ’climate coloniality’, and plan for more inclusive
environments, infrastructures, and mobility cultures.
Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is the Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. She was founding co-director of the
Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, England, and then became
Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director
of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in
Philadelphia. Sheller was founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, and past
President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and
Mobility. Sheller is an interdisciplinary scholar with interests in Caribbean Studies,
Mobilities Research, and Social Theory. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the
NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (2022-2027) and PI for a
related NOAA-BIL award on Improving Engagement Methods for Coastal
Resilience and Reducing Climate Risk (2023-2027).
Mimi Sheller is part of TRANSPLACE scientific advisory board.