The Simon Fraser University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, in Burnaby and Vancouver, Canada, is pleased to host TWO EVENTS, March 28th and 29th, with Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Professor of Sociology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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COLLOQUIUM: "Island Futures and Caribbean Survival"
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 1 - 2:20 pm, SFU Burnaby Campus, AQ 5067 (Ellen Gee Room)
What geographical imagery and imagination is necessary to describe the contemporary Caribbean? And related to this, what forms of citizenship and agency remain for its people in the face of ongoing forms of coloniality?
This seminar will examine the region’s growing insertion into deepening forms of planetary urbanism, including the expansion of the Panama Canal and the growth in Chinese direct investment in infrastructure projects and industrial zones. These have different impacts across the region. Independent countries face hard choices. For example, Jamaica struggles with the decision to re-open bauxite mining in its interior, build a highly polluting coal-fired power station, and turn a protected island into a logistics hub in order to attract Chinese investment. Cuba is opening its economy to a new wave of visitors and foreign investors, but exacerbating social inequality; while Haiti remains “occupied” by U.N. peacekeeping forces and still struggles to form a government and rebuild its economy ever since the aftermath of the devastating 2011 earthquake, the spread of deadly cholera, and the second blow of Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
This consideration of Caribbean futures will join the long tradition of Caribbean studies of mobility (theorized in terms of diaspora, archipelagos, relationality, rhizome, tidalectics, etc.) with insights from the new mobilities paradigm . This new transdisciplinary approach can help us generate alternative ways of thinking about globalization, territoriality, im/mobilities, and planetary geo-ecological systems.
Sheller, M. ‘Uneven Mobility Futures: A Foucauldian Approach,’ Mobilities, (doi: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097038).
Sheller, M. ‘Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World: Contested Infrastructure in Post-Disaster Contexts’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, SI on Geographies of Mobility, ed. Mei-Po Kwan (DOI:10.1080/00045608.2015.1113114).
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PUBLIC LECTURE "Mobility Justice"
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7 - 9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, Room 1400
Co-hosted by the SFU Urban Studies Program
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day, when the entire world faces the urgent question of how to make the transition to more environmentally sustainable and socially just mobilities. All around the planet urban, regional, and international governing bodies are grappling with a series of crises related to how we move: an urban crisis of pollution and congestion, a global refugee crisis of borders and humanitarianism, and a climate crisis of global warming and decarbonisation. This talk will seek to think across these crises showing how each is part of a wider disturbance in prevailing institutions concerned with the management of mobilities and immobilities. Mobility justice offers a new way to think across the micro and macro scale of transitioning toward more just mobilities.
Nicholson, J. and Sheller, M. ‘Introduction: Race and the Politics of Mobility’, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6: 1 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2016.060102
Mimi Sheller Biography<http://drexel.edu/coas/faculty-research/faculty-directory/sheller-mimi/>
Professor Sheller's visit is supported by the FASS Dean's Speakers' Fund
All events free and open the public. Light refreshments served.
http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/news-events/colloquium-archive/spring_2017_colloquium.html
http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/news-events/news-2017/mimi_sheller.html
Jeanne Persoon
Secretary to the Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
and to the Director, The Labour Studies Program and The Morgan Centre for Labour Research
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, AQ 5054
Burnaby, BC Canada V5A 1S6
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Mimi Sheller, PhD.
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy
President, T2M.org
Drexel University
3101 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-571-3652 | Fax: 215-895-1333
www.drexel.edu/mobilities
Facebook: mCenterDrexel
Twitter: @mCenterDrexel and @HaitiWater
Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/aluminum-dreams
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415667715/
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