Let’s hit the road! Environmental hazards, materialities, and mobility justice: insights from Tajikistan’s Pamirs

This article draws from the expanding field of climate mobilities, which explores nexus between change, environmental conditions and (im)mobility based on ‘mobilities paradigm’. Environmental hazards collide with transportation infrastructures, for instance through adverse effects floods, heat waves, ice thawing roads, may disrupt or hamper everyday mobility. Frequent disaster-induced mobility impairments render individuals unable to commute places decrease their socioeconomic opportunities. Emphasising material aspects this paper argues that an analysis systems helps develop a deeper understanding inequalities injustices in context risk change. Sheller’s justice perspective is taken as way critically address disruptions reflect interconnection different patterns. Empirically, case-study Tajikistan’s Bartang Valley, where reduce residents’ capacities circulate access food markets, healthcare facilities, job Overall, invitation fields mobilities consider impacts matter, things enable human (im)mobility.