"Transport Geographies of Hope"

Call for Papers-"Transport Geographies of Hope"

Journal: Journal of Transport Geography

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 03 Oct 2026

Key Requirements:

• Hope as analytical lens/methodology (hope without optimism)

• Transport justice + resistance practices focus

• Theoretical + grounded empirical contributions

Overview

Hope = active discipline amid transport poverty, surveillance expansion, ecological breakdown, infrastructure violence. Reclaims transport geographies as struggle/transformation spaces beyond control/dispossession narratives. Explores "hopeful practices/imaginaries/interventions" in mobility justice.

Key Research Themes

Hopeful Transport Practices:

• Community organising for transport justice

• Radical urban mobility experiments

• Commoning mobilities + care mobilities

Hope in the Margins:

• Everyday resistance/reworking of infrastructures

• Speculative design/art/activism remaking mobility

• Precarity → alternative futures orientation

Hope as Discipline:

• Political commitment + collective imagination

• Transformative spaces creation (hooks-inspired)

• Marginalised voices amplifying hope

Submission Details

• Closes: 03 October 2026

• MANDATORY: Select "VSI: Transport Geographies of Hope" article type

Guest Editor Team

• Dr. Debbie Hopkins, University of Oxford, UK

• Dr. Ersilia Verlinghieri, University of Westminster, London, UK

Why This Issue Matters

Hope without optimism paradigm for transport geography. Bridges critical theory + grounded resistance addressing intersecting crises (climate/war/displacement). Redefines transport as generative struggle terrain amid planetary uncertainty.

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