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Ground Level: Commuting and Sustainability w/ Vicki Reif-Breitwieser and James Jackson
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- Mar 23, 2026
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Summary
Every day, millions of people travel to and from their main occupation. Commuting is a central part of daily life, but it is also political. Managing the public transport network is an important part of the job of local officials, for example the mayor of London. Public transport policies are likewise a key element of any progressive strategy for sustainable development, including in the UK, where electrification and nationalisation are reshaping mobility. Everyday political economy has long discussed commuting through Marxist and feminist analyses of labour alienation, particularly in relation to caring jobs undertaken by those socialised as women. We take a different perspective, focusing instead on the global dimensions of the everyday political economy of transport electrification in public and private transport, and exploring the everyday realities of electrification supply chains. Concepts discussed: green growth, green extractivism and mining, green transition and China’s role, electrification policies, electric vehicles, indigenous and everyday resistance. Host: Dr Frank Maracchione , SOAS University of London. Guests: Vicki Reif-Breitwieser is a postgraduate researcher in Politics at University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on conflict and violence associated with extractive industries in Latin America. Her PhD thesis interrogates the relationship between extractivism and the green transition with extensive fieldwork in Argentina. Dr James Jackson is a Hallsworth Research Fellow at University of Manchester having completed his PhD at SPERI. His work examines the politics of the electric vehicle transition and the intersection of fiscal, monetary and climate policy. He has published widely on the politics of the electric vehic…