Mobilities, knowledge, and social justice / edited by Suzan Ilcan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilcan, Suzan, Author.

Ilcan, Suzan, 1960- author, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social mobility.

Social justice.

Access to knowledge movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.

Place of Publication:

Montréal & Kingston [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The mobility of people, objects, information, ideas, services, and capital has reached levels unprecedented in human history. Such forms of mobility are manifested in continued advances in communication and transportation capacities, in the growing use of digital and biometric technologies, in the movements of Indigenous, migrant, and women's groups, and in the expansion of global capitalism into remote parts of the world. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice demonstrates how knowledge is mobilized and how people shape, and are shaped by, matters of mobility. Richly detailed and illuminating essays reveal the ways in which issues of mobility are at the centre of debates, ranging from practices of belonging to war and border security measures, from gender, race, and class matters to governance and international trade, and from citizenship and immigration policies to human rights. Contributors analyze how particular forms of mobility generate specific types of knowledge and give rise to claims for social justice. This collection reconsiders mobility as a key term in the social sciences and humanities by delineating new ways of understanding how mobility informs and shapes lives as well as social, cultural, and political relations within, across, and beyond states. Contributors include Rob Aitken (Alberta), Tanya Basok (Windsor), Janine Brodie (Alberta), William Coleman (Waterloo), Ronjon Paul Datta (Alberta), Karl Froschauer (Simon Fraser), Daniel Gorman (Waterloo), Amanda Grzyb (Western), Suzan Ilcan (Waterloo), Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex), Anita Lacey (Auckland), Theresa McCarthy (Buffalo), Daniel J. Paré (Ottawa), Nicola Piper (Sydney), Parvati Raghuram (Open), Kim Rygiel (Wilfrid Laurier), Leslie Regan Shade (Toronto), Sandra Smeltzer (Western ), Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton), Myra Tawfik (Windsor), and Lloyd Wong (Calgary).

Contents:

Introduction: Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice / Suzan Ilcan

part one Frames of Belonging. Contending Frames of "Security" and "Citizenship": Lebanese Dual Nationals during the 2006 Lebanon War / Daiva Stasiulis

Knowledge, Gender, and Changing Mobility Regimes: Women Migrants in Europe / Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram

Mundane Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Social Justice: A NeoDurkheimian Approach / Ronjon Paul Datta

Integrating High-Tech Immigrants and Temporary Workers in Canada's New Economy: Structural Limitations to Mobilities / Lloyd Wong and Karl Froschauer

part two Governance and Expertise. Mobility Regimes: The Short Life and Times of North America's Security and Prosperity Partnership / Janine Brodie

Mobile Citizens, Risky Subjects: Security Knowledge at the Border / Kim Rygiel

Paradoxes of Humanitarian Aid: Mobile Populations, Biopolitical Knowledge, and Acts of Social Justice in Osire Refugee Camp / Suzan Ilcan

Payday Loans: Assembling the Immobile Subject of Fringe Credit / Rob Aitken

Geographical Indications, Mobility, and Identity / Daniel Gorman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-8882-5

OCLC:

1055387372