Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice

Abstract

How would we move differently in a just world? Drawing on the work of social movements organizing around different forms and scales of mobility justice, this essay offers some speculative reflections on mobility justice as a political horizon, while calling for an approach to mobility studies that takes seriously the ways in which affect and feelings move bodies. Vukov intervenes on the gap that tends to exist between the emergent field of mobilities research and mobility-oriented social movements. In doing so, Vukov explores and experiments with a number of strange moves in the hopes of contributing to current broad-ranging efforts to dislodge ruling logics of mobility control that increasingly target bodies in motion. By introducing ‘strange moves’ as an analytic for the study of mobilities and immobilities, this closing chapter highlights the ways that unexpected alliances can advance a broader, more collective approach to mobility justice.