ABSTRACT

This chapter describes a more holistic theorization of mobility justice that advances debates around transport equity, spatial justice and sustainable cities toward a more comprehensive analysis of intersectional aspects of mobility-related inequities. It argues that a comprehensive theory of mobility justice should address multiple scales of mobility and multiple approaches to justice in all of these areas. The chapter offers an overview of mobilizing justice, moving beyond transport justice towards mobility justice. Mobility justice is an overarching concept for thinking about how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement, shaping the patterns of unequal mobility and immobility in the circulation of people, resources and information. An account of the distinctiveness of 'mobility justice' begins by examining the limitations of existing theoretical approaches to justice within the transport justice literature. The conceptualization of mobility justice draws on a mobile ontology that incorporates entangled scales and kinopolitical concepts.