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Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller is professor of sociology, head of the sociology department, and founding director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is co-editor of the journal Mobilities, past president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, and author of twelve books including Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018) and Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2020).
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