Theorizing Mobility Justice

‘Theorising Mobility Justice/Teorizando sobre mobilidades justas’, article published in Tempo Social: Revista Sociologica da USP

My recently published book on Mobility Justice (Verso, 2018) has been attracting attention around the world. This article was published for Brazilian audiences, in Tempo Social: Revista Sociologica da USP and summarizes some of the key arguments in the book.

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day, when the entire world faces the urgent question of how to make the transition to more environmentally sustainable and socially just mobilities. All around the planet urban, regional, and international governing bodies are grappling with a series of crises related to how we move: an urban crisis of pollution and congestion, a global refugee crisis of borders and humanitarianism, and a climate crisis of global warming and decarbonisation. This article seeks to think across these crises showing how each is part of a wider disturbance in prevailing institutions concerned with the management of mobilities and immobilities. Mobility justice offers a new way to think across the micro and macro scale of transitioning toward more just mobilities..