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Overview

Mimi Sheller is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, demography, geography, planning and development, transportation, and history. The scientist's work addresses topics related to climate change, adaptation, and migration, as well as diverse aspects of tourism research.

The main topics of Mimi Sheller's work include:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

Sheller has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Mobilities
  • Transfers
  • New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

They have collaborated with several coauthors on multiple occasions, including David Tyfield, Carol Farbotko, Gijs Mom, Sven Kesselring, and Pete Adey.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Mimi Sheller are:

  • Reconstructing tourism in the Caribbean: connecting pandemic recovery, climate resilience and sustainable tourism through mobility justice (2020), Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • The reproduction of reproduction: theorizing reproductive (im)mobilities (2020), Mobilities

Other recent notable papers in related fields include:

  • Pandemic (Im)mobilities (2021), Mobilities
  • Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate (2022), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Islands as interstitial encrypted geographies: Making (and failing) cryptosecessionist exits (2022), Political Geography

Sheller's research intersects with issues of mobility justice, pandemic and climate-related mobilities, and the socio-political dimensions of migration and tourism. Their work contributes to understanding the dynamic relations between environmental change, social movements, and human mobility across different spatial and temporal scales.

Best Publications

  • The new mobilities paradigm.

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

    Kevin Hannam;Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

    Kevin Hannam;Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • The City and the Car

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car

    Mimi Sheller

  • Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies

    Mimi Sheller

  • Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration

    Sara Ahmed

  • Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

    Mimi Sheller

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

    Peter Adey;David Bissell;Kevin Hannam;Peter Merriman

  • Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm

    Mimi Sheller;John Richard Urry

  • The new mobilities paradigm for a live sociology

    Mimi Sheller

  • Mobile Publics: Beyond the Network Perspective:

    Mimi Sheller

  • Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life.

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Mobile Technologies of the City

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

    Mimi Sheller

  • Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica

    Mimi Sheller

  • Publics in history

    Mustafa Emirbayer;Mimi B. Sheller

  • Introduction: Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration

    Sara Ahmed;Claudia Castañeda;Anne-Marie Fortier;Mimi Sheller

  • From spatial turn to mobilities turn

    Mimi Sheller

  • Places to play, places in play

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

Frequent Co-Authors

John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Tim Cresswell
Tim Cresswell University of Edinburgh
Damian Maye
Damian Maye University of Gloucestershire
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Ben Anderson
Ben Anderson Durham University
Chris Philo
Chris Philo University of Glasgow
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Walter D. Mignolo
Walter D. Mignolo Duke University
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed McGill University Health Centre

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