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Movement in an Age of Extremes

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Dates:7 May 2025
Times:15:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Manchester Urban Institute
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Professor Mimi Sheller
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In her book Mobility Justice (2018) Professor Mimi Sheller referred to the age of extremes as a triple crisis involving climate disruption, unsustainable urban mobilities, and a crisis of racialized border securitization. This talk updates the question of mobility justice today, when human mobilities and energy demand exceed every planetary boundary, and political boundaries around universal rights of mobility are also increasingly being transgressed. In the United States the new Trump administration represents both the retrenchment of fossil fuel and carbon capital (alongside exponentially growing energy consumption by digital capital) and the deepening of exclusionary militarized borders, migrant detention and forced deportation. What is the relation between these two reactionary movements? What can we do to pull back from these extremes and galvanize movements for mobility justice? Professor Sheller will argue for an alternative mobility imagination that builds a culture of shared space, low-carbon practices, mobile commoning, and respect for life.

Price: Free

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Professor Mimi Sheller

Role: Dean of the Global School

Organisation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Biography: Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. Her interdisciplinary scholarship has influenced Caribbean Studies, Mobilities Research, and Social Theory. Recent books include Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (2021); Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (2020); and Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018).

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