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Contribution short abstract

This contribution problematizes transitions to sustainable urban mobility dominated by electrification. At the global scale, this goal seem unproblematic, yet, it recalibrates relations between urban inhabitants in many troubling ways. Justice is introduced as a concept rescaling new mobility.

Contribution long abstract

This contribution proposes to re-think sustainable urban mobility transitions through the concept of justice to complicate their scalar politics. The global discourse of new urban mobility has been dominated by the vision of electrification - of cars and micromobile devises. However, when zooming into the actual practices of new electric mobility at urban scale and examining them through the lens of justice (distributions, procedural, epistemic), the scalar effects of these transition processes become troubling in many ways. This contribution argues for the benefits of ethnographic approaches to urban transition processes which help to understand how they re-calibtrate relations between urban inhabitants, who becomes part of the globally endorsed new urban mobilities, and who is left behind. Additionally, it is argued in favor of collaborative transition experiments as a way to enhance social learning about new mobiltiy practices among a wide range of actors, including urban planners and local communities, and as a way to re-examine different scalar effects of the transition process.