UBC Latin American Studies and the Mobilities Research Group invite you to a talk by
Mimi Sheller
Mobility Justice, Climate Migration and the Lessons of Pandemic (Im)mobilities
Friday, September 25th, 2020 at 4pm (PDT)
Please RSVP here, once you’ve registered, Zoom link will be sent to the registered email account 48 hours prior to the start of the event:
http://www.migration.ubc.ca/events
About Mimi Sheller, PhD:
Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy
Drexel University
Sheller’s research interests include sustainable mobility and mobility justice, Caribbean studies and mobilities, and tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility. Sheller holds a continuing appointment as senior research fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (UK) and is founding co-editor of the international journal Mobilities. She is on the international editorial boards of the journals Cultural Sociology, and African and Black Diaspora.
She is the author of the books Consuming the Caribbean (2003), which explores the relations of production and consumption in the transatlantic world from the colonial era until today; Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (2000); and recently completed Citizenship from Below: Caribbean Agency and Modern Freedom (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She is also co-editor with John Urry of Mobile Technologies of the City (2006), Tourism Mobilities(2004), and a special issue of Environment and Planning A on “Materialities and Mobilities.”