The Anatomy of Mobility Injustice (2024)

Welcome to The Anatomy of Mobility Injustice

Organizer: Professor Ole B. Jensen

Lecturers: Professor Ole B. Jensen (organizer) and Professor and Dean Mimi Sheller, The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

ECTS: 3

Date/Time: September 30 - October 2, 2024

Deadline: 9 September 2024

Max no. Of participants: 15

Description: With a grounding in the ‘mobilities turn’ this PhD course focuses on how questions of justice and injustice increasingly become important key issues for scholars researching mobility in various fields. Across areas such as design, architecture, urbanism, urban planning, anthropology, and sociology there is a need to understand the politics and anatomy of mobility injustice. Whether one is researching tourism, sustainable mobility, migration, or urban planning the question of ‘who counts as a user?’ (or citizen) is fundamental to contributing to the contemporary challenges facing global communities. In this PhD course there will be lectures based on ‘exclusionary design’ showing how unhoused and vulnerable citizens are subject to power-ridden designs of urban spaces. The invited lecturer draws on her research in mobility justice (being the author of the field-defining book on the subject: ‘Mobility Justice’, Verso, 2018). From these areas theoretical and methodological lessons will be drawn into a didactic space where the course participants reflect upon their own research projects. The participants will create applied research designs for studying mobility injustice and are expected to present core ideas on their research projects related to the course theme. Participants must read a moderate number of readings in advance of the course. There is an option for earing 2 extra ECTS course credits for a successfully evaluated post-course assignment submission.

Prerequisites: Participants with master’s degrees in urban design, architecture, industrial design, urban planning, traffic engineering, sociology, urban geography or similar.

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.