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  • Mobility Justice

    The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement.Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

    by Patsy Lewis, Kristen A. Kolenz, Cecilia Rocha-Carpiuc, Lucia Nejamkis, D. Alissa Trotz, Donette Francis, Paul Joseph López Oro, Monica DeHart0, Esteban Loustaunau1, Mimi Sheller2, Natalie Dietrich Jones3, Shelene Gomes4, Tanya Aguíñiga5, Donette Frances6 ...
    Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as both a site and a concept. Calling for renewed attention to the spaces, identities, and conflicts that remain understudied and excluded from our hemispheric knowledge of forced movement, the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Building Equitable Climate Adaptation Partnerships in the US Caribbean

    Edited by Sarah Molinari, Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book assesses the opportunities and outcomes for shared-action learning, participatory approaches, and university-community partnerships to support climate adaptation and climate justice in the US Caribbean. The authors explore the ways that project-based pedagogies and collaborative research can contribute not only to building climate resilience and social infrastructures, but more broadly ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Pandemic (Im)mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield ...
    In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or COVID-19 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Island Futures

    Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Citizenship from Below

    Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
    Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Uprootings/Regroundings

    Questions of Home and Migration

    New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed ‘global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called ‘postmodern' life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is ‘on the move'. This original and timely book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mobilities and Complexities

    Edited by Ole B. Jensen, Sven Kesselring, Mimi Sheller ...
    The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how Urry’s writing influenced the course of their research and theorizing.This volume ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Aluminum Dreams

    The Making of Light Modernity

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller ...
    The 21st century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last. With cheap travel, and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030. And yet, all this mobility is happening incredibly unevenly, at different paces and intensities, with varying impacts and consequences to the extent that life on the move might be actually quite difficult to sustain environmentally, socially ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Edited by Mimi Sheller, Kevin Hannam ...
    Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating. The contributors offer nuanced understandings of the politics of mobility across various kinds of borders and forms of cultural circulation, showing how people experience and practice crossing many different borders. Several chapters ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mobility and Locative Media

    Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces

    Edited by Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Changing Mobilities
    Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication ... Read more

    $55.99 USD