Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice

284 Pages·2019·6.851 MB·English

by  Nancy Cook (editor), David Butz (editor)

Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social
Justice
This collection investigates the relationship between mobilities and social
justice to develop the concept of mobility justice.
Two introductory chapters outline how social justice concepts can
strengthen analyses of mobility as socially structured movement in particular
fieldsofpower,whatnewjustice-relatedquestionsarisebyconsideringuneven
mobilities through a social justice frame, and what a ‘mobile ontology’ con-
tributes to understandings of justice in relation to 21st-century social rela-
tions. In 15 subsequent chapters, authors analyze the material infrastructures
thatconfiguremobilitiesandco-constituteinjustice,thejusticeimplicationsof
‘more-than-human’ movements of food and animals, and mobility-related
injusticesproduced in relation to institutional acts ofgovernanceand through
micro-scale embodied relations of race, gender, class and sexuality that shape
the uneven freedom of human bodily movements.
The volume brings numerous scales, types and facets of mobility into con-
versation with multiple approaches to social justice in order to theorize
mobility justice and reimagine social justice as a mobile concept appropriate
for analyzing the effects and ethics of contemporary life. It is aimed at scho-
lars and upper-level students in the interdisciplinary fields of critical mobi-
lities and social justice, especially from disciplinary locations in geography,
sociology, philosophy, transport planning, anthropology, and design and
urban studies.
Nancy Cook isAssociateProfessorofSociologyat Brock University,Canada.
Her research has focused on transcultural interactions between development
workers from the Global North and local populations in Pakistan, examining
their gendered, sexualized, racialized and imperial dimensions.
DavidButzisProfessorofGeographyatBrockUniversity,Canada.Heisalso
afoundingfacultyaffiliateofBrock’sSocialJusticeResearchInstituteandthe
Social Justice and Equity Studies graduate program, and serves as editor-in-
chief of Studies in Social Justice.
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
PARTI
Introducing mobility justice 1
1 Moving toward mobility justice 3
NANCYCOOKANDDAVIDBUTZ
2 Theorizing mobility justice 22
MIMISHELLER
PARTII
Developing mobility justice 37
Justice and mobility governance 39
3 Aeromobility justice: a global institutional perspective 41
WEIQIANGLIN
4 Fleeing Syria – border crossing and struggles for migrant justice 54
SUZANILCAN
5 Transportation exploitation, mobility and social justice: a critical
analysis 67
GERARDC.WELLMAN
6 Mobile methods, epistemic justice and mobility justice 81
DAVIDBUTZANDNANCYCOOK
vi Contents
Justice and mobilities infrastructures 99
7 The autonomobility system: mobility justice and freedom under
sustainability 101
NOELCASSANDKATHARINAMANDERSCHEID
8 Dark design: mobility injustice materialized 116
OLEB.JENSEN
9 Emergent and integrated justice: lessons from community
initiatives to improve infrastructures for walking and cycling 129
DENVERV.NIXONANDTIMSCHWANEN
10 Fighting for ferry justice 142
SHARONR.ROSEMAN
Justice and biomobilities 157
11 Black As: performing Indigenous difference 159
GEORGINECLARSEN
12 Exploringthemobilitiesofforceddisplacementandstateviolence
against homeless citizens in Bogotá, Colombia 173
AMYE.RITTERBUSCH
13 LGBTQ communities, public space and urban movement:
towards mobility justice in the contemporary city 188
CATHERINEJ.NASH,HEATHERMAGUIREANDANDREWGORMAN-MURRAY
14 Mobility (in)justice, positionality and translocal development in
Gojal, Pakistan 201
ANDREASBENZ
Justice and more-than-human mobilities 215
15 Mobility, animals and the virtue of justice 217
FREDRIKKARLSSON
16 Tick movements: patterning multispecies vulnerabilities 230
JACOBBULL
17 Redistributing surplus food: interrogating the collision of waste
and justice 250
ANNAR.DAVIES
Index 263
Figures
6.1 Generations of lighting 87
6.2 Nazia’s umbrella 90
6.3 Old kitchen with modern equipment 92
6.4 Modern washroom 94
11.1 Sunk in Tidal Creek 163
11.2 Mangbirri: choosing a new car 165
12.1 The canal on 6th Street, Bogotá 177
16.1 TBEaverageincidenceper100,000inhabitantsintheEU/EFTA 232
16.2 TBEaverageincidenceper100,000inhabitantsintheEU/EFTA
subnational level 237
16.3 2014 TBE incidence, Sweden 238
16.4 Mapping TBEv movementswith birds 239
16.5 Tick warnings 243
16.6 Adverts for TBEv vaccination in the Stockholm Underground
and a Gothenburg shopping center 244
Contributors
Andreas Benz is Senior Lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
His research focuses on processes of socioeconomic transformation in
rural societies of the Global South, with a particular interest in educa-
tion, migration, social justice and the political ecology of human-envir-
onmental relations. His regional focus is on Pakistan, India and Cuba.
He is author of Education for Development in Northern Pakistan:
Opportunities and Constraints for Rural Households (Oxford University
Press, 2014).
Jacob Bull is a Researcher in the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala
University, Sweden. He is editor of the Crossroads book series and
member of the editorial collectives for Humanimalia: A Journal of
Human/Animal Interface Studies and Trace: Finnish Journal for
Human–Animal Studies. As a geographer interested in fish, ticks, cattle
and bees, his work focuses on the role of animals in understandings of
space, place and identity. He is the author of numerous book chapters
and articles in geography journals, and has edited three collections:
Animal Places: Lively Cartographies of Human–Animal Relations (Rou-
tledge, 2018), Illdisciplined Gender: Engaging Questions of Nature/Cul-
ture and Transgressive Encounters (Springer, 2016) and Moving Animals:
Essays on Direction, Velocity and Agency in Humanimal Encounters
(Uppsala University, 2011).
David Butz is Professorof Geography at Brock University, Canada, where he
is a founding faculty affiliate of Brock’s Social Justice Research Institute
and the Social Justice and Equity Studies graduate program, and serves as
editor-in-chief of Studies in Social Justice. He has been conducting ethno-
graphic research in northern Pakistan since 1985 on topics relating to
human transport labor, environmental governance, irrigation agriculture,
mobilities, disaster recovery and development-related social change. Cur-
rent research with Nancy Cook focuses on the differential mobility impli-
cations of a recently constructed jeep road linking Shimshal village to the
Karakoram Highway, northern Pakistan’s arterial roadway. His work has
been published in edited collections, The Sage Handbook of Qualitative
Contributors ix
Geography (Sage, 2010), The International Encyclopedia of Geography
(Wiley, 2017) and numerous geographical and interdisciplinary journals.
Noel Cass is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology
at Lancaster University, UK. His interests lie in mobility/transport
and climate change policy, renewable energy technologies, nuclear
waste disposal policy, fuel poverty, energy and the built environment
and carbon capture and storage. He has extensive experience in public
participation in policymaking, particularly conducting and analysing
public engagement processes. Current work focuses on how energy
demand is locked in through office building design processes. He has
published widely on these topics in journals in geography, transporta-
tion research, architectural design, sociology and interdisciplinary
science.
Georgine Clarsen is an Associate Professor and Discipline Leader of His-
tory at the University of Wollongong. Her research has focused on
mobilities in settler colonial Australia as a distinctive constellation of
raced and gendered practices. She is a founding editor of the journal
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and of the
book series Explorations in Mobility, both published by Berghahn
Press.
Nancy Cook is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University,
Canada. Her research has focused on transcultural interactions between
development workers from the Global North and local populations in
Pakistan, focusing on their gendered, sexualized, racialized and imperial
dimensions (Gender, Identity and Imperialism: Western Women Devel-
opment Workers in Pakistan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Recent
research with David Butz entails two studies in the Gilgit-Baltistan
region of northern Pakistan related to road infrastructure and asso-
ciated mobilities. One focuses on the uneven mobility implications of a
new link road that connects Shimshal village to the Karakoram High-
way; the other investigates a range of demobilizations experienced in
the Gojal region in the aftermath of a landslide disaster that destroyed
a large section of its arterial roadway. This work is published in a
number of book chapters and journals such as Mobilities, Social and
Cultural Geography, Contemporary South Asia and Studies in Social
Justice.
Anna R. Davies is Professorof Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental governance
and sustainability, and she is currently examining the sustainability impli-
cations of new sociotechnical developments in urban food systems. A
member of the Royal Irish Academy, Anna has advised the Irish govern-
ment as an independent member of its National Economic and Social
Council and National Climate Change Advisory Council. Anna is aboard
x Contributors
member of the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and
Production and a founding member of Future Earth’s Knowledge Action
Networkon Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.
Andrew Gorman-Murray is Professor of Geography at Western Sydney Uni-
versity, Australia. His interests include gender, sexuality and space; urban
transformations; mobilities and place-making; household dynamics and
home/workinterchange;emotionalgeographiesandwellbeing;anddisaster
planning and emergency management. With Catherine Nash, he is explor-
ing ‘new’ LGBT urban geographies. With Catherine Nash and Kath
Browne, he is examining transnational resistance to LGBT rights. With
David Bissell, he is investigating how mobile work is transforming Aus-
tralian homes. He co-edited Material Geographies of Household Sustain-
ability (Routledge, 2011), Sexuality, Rurality and Geography (Lexington,
2013), Masculinities and Place (Ashgate, 2014) and Queering the Interior
(Bloomsbury, 2018). He is co-editor of the journal Emotion, Space and
Society.
Suzan Ilcan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
She is the author of Longing in Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Settle-
ment (Praeger, 2002) and co-author of Issues in Social Justice: Citizenship
andTransnationalStruggles (OxfordUniversityPress,2013)and Governing
the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid (McGill-
Queen’sUniversityPress,2011).SheiseditorofMobilities,Knowledge,and
Social Justice (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013). Her current Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council-funded research projects
examine migration policies, bordering practices and humanitarian aid in
the context of the displacement, precarity and mobility of refugees.
Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory at the Department of Archi-
tecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University. He has an
educational background in political science, sociology and planning. He
is deputy director, co-founder and board member at the Centre for
Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS). His main research interests are
urban mobilities, mobilities design and networked technologies. He is
the author of Staging Mobilities (Routledge, 2013) and Designing
Mobilities (Aalborg University Press, 2014), editor of the four-volume
collection Mobilities (Routledge, 2015) and author (with Ditte Bendix
Lanng) of Urban Mobilities Design: Urban Designs for Mobile Situa-
tions (Routledge, 2017).
Fredrik Karlsson is a Senior Lecturer of Ethics at Dalarna University,
Sweden. He has published works on a number of issues related to animal
ethics and human-animal relations, including a monograph on animal
rights theories and papers on anthropomorphism. His research presently
focuses on morally connoted terminologies within ethological research,
and on anthropomorphic and anthropocentric habits of interpretation.