Power, Gender, and Authoritarian Mobility
From 1 to 4 September 2026, the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG), one of the largest international conferences in the field of geography, took place in London. Under this year’s theme, “Geographies of inequalities: towards just places”, researchers from around the world discussed how spatial and social inequalities emerge, reinforce one another, and can be overcome.
For the Saarmila project, the conference provided an opportunity to bring current findings into a more strongly theoretical debate on mobility, power, and social inequality. In the presentation “Against the inevitability of cars: power, gender, and authoritarian mobility”, Dr Andrea Amri-Henkel explored why car-based mobility appears so self-evident and which social power relations are reflected in it…
