Injustices in Urban Mobility: Understanding Place-Based Disparities and Prospects for Thriving Communities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 10341
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transportation justice; mobility justice; environmental sociology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue seeks to bring together the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary literature on place-based inequalities as they relate to mobility within urban areas. This issue will build upon existing scholarship in urban studies, geography, sociology, gender studies, and transportation studies. The purpose of the issue will be to include both articles that explore the realities of urban mobility injustices and those that also seek to offer ideas on interventions or solutions to reduce mobility inequalities and enhance community well-being. This Special Issue will provide a unique repository for multidisciplinary and multimethod work and will seek to elevate papers that speak to the social and spatial aspects of mobility. The goal of the issue is to move beyond empirical or highly technical demonstrations of inequalities and move toward a place of deeper theoretical understanding of the root causes of mobility injustices, with an eye toward potential solutions.
In this Special Issue, we seek to bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages urban mobilities from a variety of perspectives and welcome both empirical and theoretical papers. In particular, while we aim to critically diagnose the mechanisms that contribute to inequitable dynamics surrounding mobility and movement in urban places, we also encourage submissions that provide examples of instances in which community-oriented solutions have served to reduce mobility injustices. We are especially interested in papers exploring mobilities through the lenses of environmental justice, feminist geographies, and/or racial capitalism. Papers that center the experiences of historically marginalized communities are of particular interest for this Special Issue.
Some possible orienting topics include:
- Spatial analyses that focus on the disparate impacts of gentrification, urban development, and transportation infrastructures;
- Considerations of the intersections between transportation and housing, particularly as these relate to renters or those who are homeless;
- Explorations of green gentrification and its impacts on community livability;
- Barriers to transportation access for women, gender minorities, and/or people of color. Of particular interest are papers related to public transport and bicycling;
- Immobilities linked to policing, surveillance, or concerns about harassment or violence;
- Critical analyses of public policies;
- Historically situated analyses of mobility within neighborhoods and cities.
Dr. Amy Lubitow
Dr. Miriam J. Abelson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mobilities
- mobility justice
- critical geographies
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