Screen shot source, BBC Radio 4 Radio 4 Producer: Jayne Egerton Listen to BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed, with David Tyfield and Yuen Yuen Ang>> Laurie Taylor from BBC Radio 4, talks to Yuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor of Political...
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Between the Village and the Global City: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore
by Simon Peth, Harald Sterly and Patrick Sakapoldrak Abstract This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining the mobilities paradigm with the concept of...
The Nuclear Family Project: The Art Of Touring The Toxic, Pt 2
By Dr. Sharon Wilson, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University This is the second part of a 2-part series Dr. Wilson is writing on tourism and activism related to nuclear sites. For more about Dr. Wilson and her work, visit her faculty page. To read the first...
Art & Mobilities Network Symposium
Over the past 10 years the study and practice of Art & Mobilities has been gaining momentum through networks, conferences, books, special issues, exhibitions and in the practices of artists, writers and curators. In recognition of this activity we are forming an...
Mobilities and Wayfinding – Finding Our Way from A to B
Written by Dr Paul Symonds Mobilities is a subject area that encapsulates a range of topics that are grouped by movement. In a post-modern world, for example, this movement includes people, information, culture (Urry, 2007), and heritage (Lo Iacono, 2018).Whole...
Multiplanetary Futures
Lancaster University 31 May – 1 June 2018 Recent years have seen a revival of interest in the exploration and settlement of other planets. Proponents of space travel argue that becoming a ‘multiplanetary species’ would help to solve...
Drone Justice: Witnessing the Anthropocene
Drone Justice: Witnessing the Anthropocene by Dr Adam Fish There is a lot of propaganda around drones being “disruptive” technologies. I have been empirically testing the disruptive potentials of drone practices through many diverse contexts throughout the world....
International Mobility Norway- MOVE Research
MOVE Research International Mobility Norway (IMN) is a newly established research group working on patterns of youth mobility from a perspective within the Norwegian/ Scandinavian context. It focuses on various forms of international mobility among young people, such...
Brexit and the need for a new urban eco-aesthetics in the UK
By Visting Scholar, Rodanthi Tzanelli Recently, while I was reading Perdita Phillips’ (2015) musings over the unresolved relationship between sustainability and eco-aesthetics, I began to consider the implications of the UK’s exclusion from the European Capital of...