Planning for Mobility Justice: A Guide Towards Sustainable Mobility Futures
Open Lecture with Mimi Sheller
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.
Time: Mon 2024-08-19 13.00 - 15.00
Location: Gradängssalen, Teknikringen 1 KTH
Language: English
Participating: Mimi Sheller
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.
The lecture is arranged by the TRANSPLACE research school for sustainableplanning and built environment. Read more about the research school at www.kth.se/en/transplace.
