Handbook of Gender and Mobilities
Published on 13. December 2024
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-1-0353-0085-3 (ISBN)
Description
This important Handbook provides a critical overview of the complex links between gender, mobility, and immobility, emphasizing the production and politics of gendered mobilities and the importance of gender perspectives.
Expert contributors investigate key issues such as mobility transitions across the life course; the links between gender, caregiving and everyday mobilities; and the gendered opportunities and constraints for international migrants. The studies critically examine the gendered impacts of transportation infrastructure and sustainability policies such as 15-minute cities and free-fare public transport. Drawing on empirical research from across the globe, the Handbook of Gender and Mobilities highlights how class, ethnicity and race, ableism and age shape gendered mobilities across different spatial scales.
This Handbook is an excellent read for students and researchers looking for an up-to-date resource for mobility studies, urban studies, feminist geography, transportation geography, urban geography, and migration studies. The cogent and succinct summaries of current research will be especially informative and useful for policy makers and transportation planners.
Expert contributors investigate key issues such as mobility transitions across the life course; the links between gender, caregiving and everyday mobilities; and the gendered opportunities and constraints for international migrants. The studies critically examine the gendered impacts of transportation infrastructure and sustainability policies such as 15-minute cities and free-fare public transport. Drawing on empirical research from across the globe, the Handbook of Gender and Mobilities highlights how class, ethnicity and race, ableism and age shape gendered mobilities across different spatial scales.
This Handbook is an excellent read for students and researchers looking for an up-to-date resource for mobility studies, urban studies, feminist geography, transportation geography, urban geography, and migration studies. The cogent and succinct summaries of current research will be especially informative and useful for policy makers and transportation planners.
Reviews / Votes
'The Handbook of Gender and Mobilities offers an authoritative overview of key developments in research on the gendering of multiple mobilities, from migration to everyday trip-making. Its centring of care and intersectionality in different regions of the world is one of its many strengths. The collection shows how a vibrant research tradition has come of age, and that there is a long road to go until gender equality and justice mobility is achieved.' -- Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford, UK 'Handbook of Gender and Mobilities offers a comprehensive review of literature on the connections between gender and mobility across various scales and diverse contexts. This unique volume provides a global perspective, addressing critical issues such as mobility justice, intersectionality, and the impact of the life course and infrastructure on gendered experiences.' -- Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University, Japan 'This book is an important contribution to literature that interrogates diverse aspects of gender and mobility. The wide range of authors brilliantly untangle the complex web of mobility (and immobility) in everyday life and across the life course. The empirically rich and innovative theoretical work in this edited collection will engage readers in critical feminist analyses of the gendered dimensions of accessibility and mobility in society.' -- Ann M. Oberhauser, Iowa State University, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-0085-3 (9781035300853)
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Persons
Edited by Valerie Preston, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar in Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada, Sara McLafferty, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US, Monika Maciejewska, Senior Researcher, Research Group in Mobility, Transport and Land Use (GEMOTT), Department of Geography, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, Brenda Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Content
Contents
1 Gender and mobility: an introduction 1
Valerie Preston, Sara McLafferty, Monika Maciejewska and Brenda S.A Yeoh
Part I Production and Politics of Gendered Mobilities
2 Gender and mobility: new approaches for informing sustainability 14
Susan Hanson
3 Reflections on gender, mobility, and sustainability 32
Susan Hanson
4 The ongoing urgency of gender and feminist perspectives on waiting and (im)mobility in migration 36
Deirdre Conlon
5 The gendered production of mobility and mobility infrastructure 46
Theresa Enright, Matti Siemiatycki and Mariana Valverde
6 Feminism and mobility justice: examining relations of care and mobilities across scales 58
Paola Castaneda, Aryana Soliz and Mimi Sheller
7 Mobile media methods in gender and (im)mobilities research 75
Andrea Markl and Tabea Bork-Hueffer
Part II Mobilities over the Lifecourse
8 Gender, childhood(s) and (im)mobilities 96
Haifa Alarasi and Ron Buliung
9 Parenting, care and the private car 110
Jennifer L. Kent
10 Midlife mobilities 128
Aija Lulle
11 Gender, mobility and space in later life and across the life course 138
Siyao Gao and Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Part III Gender and Everyday Mobilities
12 Assessing mobility of care: an overview of the approaches and current challenges for mobility research 152
Irene Gomez-Varo and Carme Miralles-Guasch
13 Intersections of gender and race among commuters in North American cities 167
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Selima Sultana
14 Exploring the mobilities of double-duty carers: introducing mobility of the care economy 186
Allison Williams, Lea Ravensbergen, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Bharati Sethi and Sakshi Mehta
15 Moving 'in' and 'out' of place: embodied, gendered and spatial dimensions of mobility (in)justice for disabled people 202
Carey-Ann Morrison, Lynda Johnston, Robyn Longhurst and Esther Woodbury
16 Gendered food practices and mobilities in everyday life 213
Chen Liu
17 Gendered mobility, (im)mobility and women's access to health care: perspectives from the global South and global North 225
Fikriyah Winata and Aida R. Guhlincozzi
Part IV Gender, Mobility and Migration
18 Migrant domestic workers and the gender politics of mobility 243
Julien Debonneville and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
19 Gendered mobilities among high-skilled women 257
Anju Mary Paul and Githmi Rabel
20 The gendered (im)mobilities of carceral protectionism in labour migration 271
Sallie Yea and Ayushman Bhagat
21 Gendered and racialized violence at global borders: humanitarian bureaucracies within the necropolitical governance of migration 284
Nina Sahraoui
22 COVID-19, gender and migrant worker (im)mobility: a global crisis perspective 296
Nicola Piper and Laura Foley
Part V Transport Mobilities
23 Gendered mobilities, transport norms and the potential for sustainable climate transitions 313
Annica Kronsell, Olga Stepanova, Christian Dymen, Lena Winslott Hiselius and Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist
24 Gendered mobilities and climate change 326
Tanu Priya Uteng
25 Gender and cycling in the 'global North' 338
Lea Ravensbergen
26 Mobilities across nations and times: women's cycling, care and communities in Asia 350
Malini Sur
27 The transportation gender gap: the role of US policy and planning 359
Evelyn Blumenberg, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Madeline Wander
28 Minute-city policies as feminist urban planning? A critical examination of urban accessibility implications for gender equity 376
Oriol Marquet and Monika Maciejewska
29 Gender-separate/segregated public transport: a critical overview of practices and policies 388
Anuja Agrawal
30 Fare-free public transport: a gender-neutral or gender-focused policy? 400
Monika Maciejewska
1 Gender and mobility: an introduction 1
Valerie Preston, Sara McLafferty, Monika Maciejewska and Brenda S.A Yeoh
Part I Production and Politics of Gendered Mobilities
2 Gender and mobility: new approaches for informing sustainability 14
Susan Hanson
3 Reflections on gender, mobility, and sustainability 32
Susan Hanson
4 The ongoing urgency of gender and feminist perspectives on waiting and (im)mobility in migration 36
Deirdre Conlon
5 The gendered production of mobility and mobility infrastructure 46
Theresa Enright, Matti Siemiatycki and Mariana Valverde
6 Feminism and mobility justice: examining relations of care and mobilities across scales 58
Paola Castaneda, Aryana Soliz and Mimi Sheller
7 Mobile media methods in gender and (im)mobilities research 75
Andrea Markl and Tabea Bork-Hueffer
Part II Mobilities over the Lifecourse
8 Gender, childhood(s) and (im)mobilities 96
Haifa Alarasi and Ron Buliung
9 Parenting, care and the private car 110
Jennifer L. Kent
10 Midlife mobilities 128
Aija Lulle
11 Gender, mobility and space in later life and across the life course 138
Siyao Gao and Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Part III Gender and Everyday Mobilities
12 Assessing mobility of care: an overview of the approaches and current challenges for mobility research 152
Irene Gomez-Varo and Carme Miralles-Guasch
13 Intersections of gender and race among commuters in North American cities 167
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Selima Sultana
14 Exploring the mobilities of double-duty carers: introducing mobility of the care economy 186
Allison Williams, Lea Ravensbergen, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Bharati Sethi and Sakshi Mehta
15 Moving 'in' and 'out' of place: embodied, gendered and spatial dimensions of mobility (in)justice for disabled people 202
Carey-Ann Morrison, Lynda Johnston, Robyn Longhurst and Esther Woodbury
16 Gendered food practices and mobilities in everyday life 213
Chen Liu
17 Gendered mobility, (im)mobility and women's access to health care: perspectives from the global South and global North 225
Fikriyah Winata and Aida R. Guhlincozzi
Part IV Gender, Mobility and Migration
18 Migrant domestic workers and the gender politics of mobility 243
Julien Debonneville and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
19 Gendered mobilities among high-skilled women 257
Anju Mary Paul and Githmi Rabel
20 The gendered (im)mobilities of carceral protectionism in labour migration 271
Sallie Yea and Ayushman Bhagat
21 Gendered and racialized violence at global borders: humanitarian bureaucracies within the necropolitical governance of migration 284
Nina Sahraoui
22 COVID-19, gender and migrant worker (im)mobility: a global crisis perspective 296
Nicola Piper and Laura Foley
Part V Transport Mobilities
23 Gendered mobilities, transport norms and the potential for sustainable climate transitions 313
Annica Kronsell, Olga Stepanova, Christian Dymen, Lena Winslott Hiselius and Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist
24 Gendered mobilities and climate change 326
Tanu Priya Uteng
25 Gender and cycling in the 'global North' 338
Lea Ravensbergen
26 Mobilities across nations and times: women's cycling, care and communities in Asia 350
Malini Sur
27 The transportation gender gap: the role of US policy and planning 359
Evelyn Blumenberg, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Madeline Wander
28 Minute-city policies as feminist urban planning? A critical examination of urban accessibility implications for gender equity 376
Oriol Marquet and Monika Maciejewska
29 Gender-separate/segregated public transport: a critical overview of practices and policies 388
Anuja Agrawal
30 Fare-free public transport: a gender-neutral or gender-focused policy? 400
Monika Maciejewska