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The working group Sociology of Transnationalisation cordially invites you to the lecture ‘Climate Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Mobile Commoning’ by Mimi Sheller (The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts).

Reactionary discourses are driving panic around climate migration and contributing to the recent rise of ethnonationalist and xenophobic border policies across Europe and North America. The theory of mobility justice offers a way to counter some of these discourses. Mobility justice is a way to frame the entanglements of power and social exclusion in the mobilities of humans, things, and ideas. It highlights the differential and unequal access to movement, and the ability to move, as well as to stay in place. This talk will argue for new policy approaches grounded in mobility justice and placing relational ethical mobilities and its heart. It will also develop the idea of “mobile commoning” as a way to help us recognize our own relationality with others, realize the need to limit excessive energy use and promote greater care for common planetary resources.

The event is part of the colloquium ‘Environmental Degradation and Climate Change: Voice, Exit or Quiescence’ organised in the working group in the winter semester 2024/2025. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 04.12.2024 at 16:15 - 17:45 in English as an online event via Zoom. Registration until 29.11.2024 at madita.michaelis@uni-bielefeld.de.

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D.: is Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Sheller is an interdisciplinary social scientist with work in Caribbean Studies, Mobilities Research, and Social Theory. Sheller was founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. She has published more than 150 articles and chapters, and recent books include Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (Edward Elgar, 2021); Island Futures: Carribean Sirvival in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2020); and Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018).