- Title
- The social justice issues of smoke im/mobilities
- Creator
- Duffy, Michelle; Yell, Sue; Walker, Larissa; Morgan, Damian; Carroll, Matthew
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/196539
- Identifier
- vital:18716
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2256595
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-9182 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In 2014, the Hazelwood mine fire burned for 45 days. Local communities were impacted by smoke and ash, and there were reports of raised carbon monoxide levels. Local news and social media reported residents experiencing numerous physical symptoms of smoke inhalation, including bleeding noses, coughing, wheezing and chest tightness. Paper masks to filter particulate matter were made available to residents to wear outside. The dust and ash constantly seeped into homes and offices, which required cleaning daily and sometimes multiple times during the day. Smoke was free to move across physical and bodily boundaries while those most vulnerable were hampered by lack of movement: pregnant women, the elderly and children were advised to leave the area. However, this suggestion to ‘simply’ move ignored the context of a community disproportionately impacted through years of economic decline and societal change. This paper explores the unequal mobilities of smoke and people that arose as a result of this event and draws on concepts of mobility justice (Sheller 2018) and emergency mobilities (Adey 2016) to reflect on the political dimensions of uneven mobility in times of crisis. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Australian Geographer Vol. 54, no. 4 (2023), p. 573-587
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4406 Human geography; Disaster; Hazelwood; Smoke; Unequal mobilities
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Funding for this research was obtained from the Victorian Department of Health
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