“Mobility Justice’’: a new means to examine and influence the politics of mobility

Everuss, Louis

doi:10.1080/23800127.2019.1576489

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“…In communities, mobility justice visions that longtime residents can afford to stay in place as their community receives long-overdue infrastructural improvements, and that communities are equal partners in creating infrastructural changes. Mobility justice research takes a broader systemic and international approach, linking transportation to other areas of injustice ( 29 – 39 ). Key texts in mobility justice challenge researchers to expand their definition of safety and transportation to include other systems that limit people’s mobility, including economic hardship, policing, state-sanctioned borders and violence, and harassment ( 29 , 33 , 37 , 40 , 41 ).…”

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Performative versus Authentic Equity Work: An Assessment of Current Practices in Transportation Planning

McCullough,

Erasmus

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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With the growth of attention to equity in transportation, there is a need to understand differing definitions of transportation equity and what constitutes impactful equity work. This report examines definitions and assesses equity work within transportation in California. We do this by analyzing the expert perspectives of 28 transportation professionals who also identify as Black or people of color. Interviews were transcribed and coded for major themes. Results indicated that there is tension around what constitutes meaningful transportation equity work. Key findings centered around a distinction between “performative” equity work and “authentic” equity work. Performative equity work privileges the comfort and perspective of dominant groups, reinforces the status quo, stays in the realm of the rhetoric, and often results in superficial changes only. Authentic equity work centers the experience of Black people and people of color, embraces discomfort, transforms dominant culture, and results in measurable changes to the lives of those historically oppressed. Key recommendations include supporting action-oriented equity work, especially around resource allocation and redistribution of decision-making power to communities. The paper includes visions for more equitable transportation futures.

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Performative versus Authentic Equity Work: An Assessment of Current Practices in Transportation Planning

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Erasmus

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Mobility literature provides considerable evidence on the significance of mobility for individuals' quality of life and highlights how the differences in mobility opportunities may produce or reproduce social inequalities (Hedman et al, 2021;. In recent decades, the increased awareness of the social consequences of mobility inequalities has contributed to recognizing mobility as a social justice issue Everuss, 2019;Gössling, 2016) and an important political and ethical issue in today society . This development has taken place in the context of the climate crisis and the recent pandemic, which have challenged cities to provide mobility alternatives that are socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.…”

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Examining Inequalities in Cycling Motility: A Pathway Towards Cycling Justice

Hamidi

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Realizing the environmental and social benefits of cycling requires effective policies that deliver increased and inclusive cycling. This thesis aims to contribute to the development of such policies by providing insights into what could make cycling achievable for more diverse social groups through engaging with theoretical perspectives from transport geography, the mobilities paradigm and social justice. In doing so the thesis examines the various elements that constitute an individual’s potential to use a bicycle and the connected inequalities. The thesis employs conceptions of accessibility and motility in combination with measures of inequality to examine the socio-spatial inequalities in cycling potentials. The first paper designs a new composite indicator based on Theil’s index of inequality and accessibility measures to study inequalities in bike-and-ride opportunities in Malmö. The second paper develops a quantitative operationalization of cycling motility by applying GIS-based and statistical analyses to empirical data collected using a survey study. Specifically, cycling motility is operationalized along three dimensions of access, competence, and appropriation. This is done by measuring cycling-related material and nonmaterial, as well as objective and subjective factors related to individuals and their social, cultural, and geographical environment. The subsequent papers put the concept of cycling motility in practice. The third paper builds on the approach developed in the second paper and examines inequalities in the cycling motility across different social groups from the three-dimensional justice lens of Nancy Fraser. Finally, the fourth paper provides insights into the relationships between individuals’ cycling motility and their realized mobility. The empirical findings highlight that such relationships vary across three urban contexts of Malmö, Gothenburg, and Beijing. Overall, the findings support that the operationalization of cycling motility is useful for studying individuals’ cycling potentials and capturing the connected between-individual differences, thereby helpful for development of policies that could realize the social and environmental potentials of cycling.

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Environmental Justice, Transport Justice, and Mobility Justice

Deka

2021

International Encyclopedia of Transportation

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“Mobility Justice’’: a new means to examine and influence the politics of mobility

Cited by 7 publications

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Performative versus Authentic Equity Work: An Assessment of Current Practices in Transportation Planning

Performative versus Authentic Equity Work: An Assessment of Current Practices in Transportation Planning

Examining Inequalities in Cycling Motility: A Pathway Towards Cycling Justice

Environmental Justice, Transport Justice, and Mobility Justice

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