Cordelia FREEMAN, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Spatial justice has been used by geographers to examine power relations in space but has been criticised for being overly focused on cities, planning, and for failing to consider embodiment. Mobility justice, as developed by Mimi Sheller (2018), meanwhile, is a concept for interrogating how power and inequality affect movement, particularly in terms of how im/mobility is unequally governed and controlled. This makes it a useful framework for understanding displacement, incarceration and other spatial injustices that takes embodiment and non-urban scales seriously. In this paper I explore the potential contributions of spatial and mobility justice through the example of reproductive injustices. I bring together mobility justice and reproductive justice, a framework that attends to the complexities and structural disadvantages involved in childbearing, parenting, and in not having children. I argue that reproductive justice scholarship has not often enough focused on the importance of mobility to the ability to parent or not, and in the right to raise children, which is an oversight given how important enforced movement or stasis has been to reproductive experiences. Through three case studies on incarceration, abortion travel, and the foster/adoptive system I show how reproductive justice and mobility justice intersect in ways that disproportionately harm women of colour, poor women, and queer and trans people. This paper concludes by reflecting on the points of connection and departure between spatial justice and mobility justice, particularly through the example of reproductive justice. This highlights the necessity of justice-centred geographical research while reflecting on the benefits of pluralism in diverse approaches towards justice.
Mots clés : Spatial Justice|Mobility Justice|Reproductive Justice|Incarceration|Abortion
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