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Mobility Justice and the Changing 'Power-Geometries’ of European Borders
On 18 November Professor Mimi Sheller presented a paper on migration, mobility justice and borders as part of the launch of EUROBORDERWALKS project. This three-year project is led by Professor Maggie O'Neill and funded through the IRC Advanced Laureate Awards programme.
Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is the Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. She was founding co-director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, England, and then became Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Sheller was founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Sheller is an interdisciplinary scholar with interests in Caribbean Studies, Mobilities Research, and Social Theory. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (2022-2027) and PI for a related NOAA-BIL award on Improving Engagement Methods for Coastal Resilience and Reducing Climate Risk (2023-2027). She has published more than 150 articles and book chapters, and is author or co-editor of fifteen books, including Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (2021); Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (2020); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018); and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (2014). Sheller completed her AB at Harvard University, in History and Literature and her MA and PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015).
Learn more about the EUROBORDERWALKS project.
This event was hosted by ISS21 in association with UCC Futures -Collective Social Futures.
For more on this story contact:
Professor Maggie O'Neill maggie.oneill@ucc.ie