Transport Geopolitics

Luc Ampleman is an Assistant Professor at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce and Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Poland. He is a former governmental advisor for the Ministry of Transport of Québec and transport planner in the northernmost region of the Province of Québec in Canada. His research interests cover local geopolitics in remote areas, transport diplomacy and active learning in higher education. Over the last 20 years, his professional and teaching engagement have been motivated by three major questions: how to foster sustainable mobility in rural and peripheral regions; how to bring together social actors with divergent interests around transport initiatives and how to better support students in their learning of political issues.

• 1. On Transport as a Cause of Conflict.- 2. On Geopolitics (From Local to Global… and Back).- 3. On Transport Geography and Political Transportability (a Prevailing Starting Point).- 4. On the Political Control of Mobilities (A Structural Approach to Geopolitics).- 5.On Transport Geopolitics (A Geopolitical Grammar of Transportability).- 6. On Transport Conflicts and Diplomacy (Negotiating Political Distances Between Transport Stakeholders).- 7. On Transport Geopolitics, Diplomacy and Planning in a Time of Turbulence.