Geographers have long been concerned with the spatialities of care work and caregiving, particularly among women and in urban areas. Moreover, recent forays into the socio-spatial dynamics of the work that reproduces human life on a day-to-day basis engage with the notion of an ‘ethic of care’, which centers caring in everyday life and recognizes it as a complex process that requires a series of moral judgements about those who care and those who are cared for (roles that are interchangeable across space and time.) This, and the mobilities ‘turn’ in geography, has influenced new research into the mobilities of care, which encourages critical perspectives on the systems that (do not) sustain the movements that carers embark on to provide unpaid care while navigating myriad economic and interpersonal needs. While research at the intersection of these fields has identified the differential mobility patterns of carers (e.g., trip chaining and carers’ non-linear movements), methodological questions, transnational perspectives and insights from the geographies of aging remain.

• 10:15 AM
  Velomobilities of Care: Rethinking Gender and Urban Bikeshare
  Zackary Ward, Carleton University

• 10:30 AM
  Abortion Mobilities and Health Inequities in Rural Canadian Communities: The Case of Niagara West, Ontario
  Emily Mills, Brock University

• 10:45 AM
  Becoming tourism infrastructure: older age mobilities and the reconfiguration of local mobility environments in Venice
  Antonio Paolo Russo, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain; visiting researcher at UQÀM, Montréal

• 11:00 AM
  Dispersed geographies: Mobility issues in interspecies care practices
  Gabrielle Perras St-Jean, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)