Description
| Product ID: | 9781788730921 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mobility Justice |
| Subtitle: | The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes |
| Authors: | Author: Mimi Sheller |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Public administration, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Public administration, Urban & municipal planning |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Mobility as politics: the inequality of movement from transport to climate change. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-09-25 |
