STADSACADEMIE is een platform voor samenwerking tussen Universiteit Gent en stedelijke actoren rond Gentse duurzaamheids­kwesties via transdisciplinair onderzoek en onderwijs.

Lecture (EN)
2020
22.04

Mobility justice across scales

Who moves freely? Who gets stopped?
Academieraadzaal, Campus Aula, Voldersstraat 9, 9000 Gent

sprekers

Mimi Sheller
Drexel University in Philadelphia — Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy

organisatoren

UGent — Faculteit Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen — vakgroep Sociologie

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Coördinator De Stadsacademie

Who moves freely? Who gets stopped? In this talk, Mimi Sheller offers an overview of how the regimes of power, that govern movement, produce inequality and differential mobilities at all levels.  

On a local level where the circulation of people, resources, and information privileges elites, while preventing access and endangering the poor.  

On an urban scale, with questions of public transport, “the right to the city,” sustainable mobilities, and “green gentrification.”  

On the planetary level, where tourists and wealthy elites roam freely, while migrants and those most in need are imprisoned at the borders or sent back to zones of violence and climate disaster. 

The struggle for mobility justice must connect the body, street, city, nation, and planet; and can forge new connections among social movements. 

Biography of the speaker

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Together with John Urry, she helped to establish the new interdisciplinary field of mobilities research. She is author of multiple articles and books, including Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018). 

 

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Within the 'Stadsacademie', there is a growing ambition to work on sustainable mobility and inequality in accessibility. With this lecture, we want to expand our knowledge on this subject, in order to then define possible research questions.