Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement stemming from power, inequality, and control. She connects the body, street, city, nation, and planet in one overarching theory of the modern, perpetually shifting world, examining mobility on a local level through the circulation of people, resources, and information, as well as on an urban scale. 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. (Short Discount)