Mobility Justice

Mobility Justice Explainer Video

Jeanette Steinmann, Ph.D student at the University of British Columbia and member of the Mobilizing Sport and Sustainability Collective, discusses the concept of mobility justice. 

Jeanette is grateful to the participants in the study referenced in the video. For more information on this research project, visit the Homelessness & Cycling Digital Museum

This video was produced with UBC Studios, with particular thanks to Chris Spencer.

References

Hoffmann, M. L. (2016). Bike lanes are white lanes: Bicycle advocacy and urban planning. U of Nebraska Press.

Lugo, A. E. (2018). Bicycle/race: Transportation, culture, & resistance. Microcosm Publishing.

People for Mobility Justice. https://www.peopleformobilityjustice.org/about-us

Sheller, M. (2018). Mobility justice: The politics of movement in an age of extremes. Verso Books.

Steinmann, J. (2020). (Re) cycling through poverty: a study of homelessness and bicycling in Vancouver, Canada (Masters thesis, University of British Columbia).

Steinmann, J. (June 28 2021). Welcome to Vancouver’s underground bicycle economy. The Tyee. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/06/28/Welcome-To-Vancouver-Underground-Bicycle-Economy/

Steinmann, J., & Wilson, B. (2022). Different spokes for different folks: Experiences with cycling and the bicycle from the perspective of variably-housed cyclists in Vancouver. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14(6), 880-899.

Steinmann, J., & Wilson, B. (2023). The underground bicycle economy: an exploration of social supports and economic resources that Vancouver’s homeless and variably-housed cyclists utilize. Mobilities, 18(2), 202-217.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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