GGIS 595

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Graduate-level exploration of a topic in Geography & GIS that is not covered by an existing course. Topics and instructors vary by semester.

Approved for Letter and S/U grading. May be repeated if topics vary.

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GGIS 595 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	74199	Seminar	MOB	10:30AM -11:50AM	MW	2084 Natural History Building	Cidell, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: MOBILITY JUSTICE: Over the last few decades, social scientists have begun to incorporate mobility into their studies of social processes rather than assuming that being fixed in place is the norm. In fields as diverse as migration, transportation, design, tourism, and literature, researchers are arguing that our movements—including restrictions on those movements—are powerful contributors to our identities and interactions. Individual bodies are marked and classified according to their capability to move, at scales from the local to the global. We therefore need to consider the power relations within (im)mobilities if we are to understand the contemporary world.<br><br> In this course, we will develop the concept of mobility justice, which pulls together climate change, migration, and urbanization as the three intertwined challenges of the 21st century that are all based on mobility. We will draw on the emerging literature in critical transport studies and mobility justice to address the following questions, among others:<br> How does a mobile ontology change how we understand the world?<br> How do complex systems like automobility and aeromobility shape our landscapes, social relations, and global environment?"<br> How is mobility used to construct and contest racial classifications and identities?<br> How are flows of goods and information also part of global (im)mobility systems?<br> Is there a “right to move” in the same way as a “right to the city”?<br> *How are climate change, migration, and urbanization intertwined as the three major challenges of the 21st century that are all based on mobility?<br><br> Readings and examples will be drawn from around the world in response to student interest, with cross-regional comparisons a key part of our discussion.