Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Sheller argues that three crises usually treated separately, climate breakdown, urban transport failure and the militarisation of borders, are one crisis about who is permitted to move. She works across scales: bodily movement policed by race, gender, sexuality and disability; car dependence and street design; smart-city infrastructure; the sea and desert crossings where migrants die; and the planetary circulation of oil, water, food and freight. Holding mobility and immobility together as a single relation is what lets her connect a bus route to a pipeline. Transport justice as usually framed asks about distribution and access, and Sheller widens the question to who is recognised as a participant in deliberation, whose knowledge counts as evidence, and at what scale a conflict should be settled. Closing chapters turn to redress, drawing on Hilary Beckles's reparations case for the hurricane-struck Caribbean and on the Untokening collective's own statement of principles.
Sheller, M. (2018). Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes. Verso.