Marginalisation, Gender and Decolonisation
| Dates: | 12 June 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:30 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Urban Institute |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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The third session in the INTALInC seminar series, 'Decolonising Transport Planning: What are the implications for transport poverty?', we will reflect on ways in which decolonial thinking opens up new ways in which different forms of mobility-related disadvantage can be worked around and addressed in context-sensitive and often creative ways. The existence of mobility-related disparities is universal but the particular forms they take cannot be understood without paying due attention to local contexts and the gendered and otherwise differentiated practices through which mobility is planned, provided and appropriated by particular individuals, groups and communities. On the one hand, this means that standardised, global and high-tech solutions often do not overcome mobility-related disadvantages in the manner that was expected when they are implemented. On the other hand, it also implies that paying detailed attention to local contexts and mobility practices can foreground the precise, flexible and creative ways in which individuals and communities in particular localities work around and reduce mobility-related inequalities and thereby compensate for the structural disparities that are grounded in gender, dis/ability, class and/or ethnicity and wired into cities across the planet.
Presentations:
Mobility commons as spaces of solidarity to overcome precarity
Eda Beyazit, University of Western England (UWE) Bristol
Decolonising standards and independence? Universal accessibility in Santiago's public transport
Daniel Muñoz, Universidad de Chile
Improving women's mobility and access to essential services and economic opportunities: The role of bicycles
Winnie Sambu, World Bicycle Relief
Abstracts and registration: https://intalinc.org/events/
The International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities (INTALInC) brings together partners from around the world to find innovative ways to address the mobility needs of vulnerable urban populations.
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