Mobility Justice

An Ecolinguistic Perspective

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ID5901167
AuthorsMaria Cristina Caimotto (0000-0001-7272-0275)
Year2024
Volume9
Issue7
Pages242
Publication date2024-07-08
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages9070242
OpenAlexW4400417219
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

The climate crisis, migration and urbanization may appear as three separate crises, but under Sheller's paradigm of Mobility Justice, they become part of a coherent whole that should be tackled as a single, complex and interconnected predicament. This paper observes rhetorical strategies employed in texts about the climate crisis, about cycling advocacy and about the "climate lockdown" conspiracy theory, which developed in Oxford, UK, in 2023. The metaphors, deictic pronouns and identity categories used are the main discourse features analysed through a qualitative approach, showing how mobility-related issues are often discussed through spatial metaphors, while deictic pronouns play a central role in the creation of identities. The findings are employed to contribute to the beneficial reframing of mobility-related discourses, whether global or local, and to react to climate inaction. The overall aim of this approach is to reveal the links between discourses about the climate crisis on a global scale and those on a local, urban scale concerning urban mobility policies. The prism through which both global and local discourses are observed is that of space and access to mobility. The aim of this investigation is to identify new patterns of language that can help us finding "new stories to live by

Economic Justice · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Multilingual Education and Policy · Artificial Intelligence · Law

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