[INTRODUCTION]

The symposium aims to map the intersecting cartographies of analog and digital justice encounters in im/mobile times, tracing how struggles over access, visibility, and participation unfold across material and discursive terrains. Justice is approached as a continuous process of contesting and rerouting the infrastructures, institutions, and power relations that shape who can move, who can appear, and who remains constrained, monitored, or erased. Approaching access as a key register of social justice, the symposium centers what we call triadic mobilities: the entanglement of mobility as movement across spaces, collective political mobilization, and the technological infrastructures that mediate connection and access. Today, being mobile, being mobilized, and being on mobile devices intersect within increasingly datafied, surveilled, and platform-mediated environments. We approach this gathering as a space to rethink in/access, in/visibility, and im/mobility in a moment marked by overlapping crises: intensifying border regimes, expanding digital surveillance, urban securitization, ecological disruption, and growing geopolitical tensions that reshape who can assemble, move, speak, and connect. Mobility, in this sense, is never simply about movement; it is organized through infrastructures of control and extraction — from biometric borders and platform governance to urban policing and algorithmic sorting. The symposium therefore invites us to examine how contemporary regimes of access are organized across digital and non-digital terrains. Questions of who can gather, move, organize, and connect increasingly shape the political possibilities of our time. At the same time, struggles for justice emerge through hybrid forms of connection, where embodied mobilities, street politics, and analog networks intersect with digital platforms, algorithmic visibility, and technological gatekeeping. From the opening plenary to the final fishbowl conversation, the symposium unfolds through interwoven questions that invite us to collectively interrogate how infrastructures of mobility and access are being reorganized — and how they might be contested, reimagined, and reclaimed.

• How are the cartographies of social justice redrawn in an era of intensified im/mobility—
  from urban struggles and local resistance to transnational organizing and diasporic solidarities?
• What does a politics of in/access reveal about freedom of movement when examined through processes of political mobilization, collective organizing, and the infrastructures that enable or constrain participation?
• What does participation mean in contemporary research marked by uneven access and persistent in/accessibility?
• How do mobile feminisms, critical disability movements, and migration justice struggles confront and reconfigure borders and barriers — across bodies, ideas, epistemologies, and both material and digital infrastructures?
• How are solidarities made mobile in struggles for social justice?
• What dynamics emerge when communities collectively confront, negotiate, and reshape the systems that install borders and barriers in their lives?

• Organized by Dr. Pinar Tuzcu
• Good Family Visiting Scholar Dr. Robel Abay
• Department of SociologyQueen’s University

Dr. Pinar Tuzcu
Mackintosh-Corry Hall E208
Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N9 Canada

pinar.tuzcu@queensu.ca