On 25-28th July, the 2018 EASST conference will take place at Lancaster University in association with Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies and Sociology. Call for papers is currently now open and you can visit the conference site here. The theme of the conference...
Mobilities – General Posts
“Body-Drivers”: Reflections of 13th Dec Reading Group
In this reading group we discussed a draft piece of Tauri Tuvikene’s paper: “Body-drivers” in traffic: Walking the Streets of Automobile City in Tallinn, Estonia. Tauri, present at the reading group, explained his paper’s current ideas and where he ultimately would...
Flying Phones, Driverless Cars, KCE Conference 2017
Lancaster’s Bronislaw Szerszynski recently attended Knowledge/ Culture/ Ecology 2017 (KCE) in Santiago, Chile, 15-18th November. The conference’s key aims were to explore current transformations in socioecologies and to generate knowledge practises capable of...
‘Mobility and the Humanities- 29th Nov discussion
Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ Mobilities, 12 (4) 2017 Merriman and Pearce took ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ as an opportunity for ‘highlighting the “genre-defying” approaches of many leading mobility scholars whose work transcends any...
Mobilities Journal’s Top Cited Articles for Current Impact Factor
Image source: John Tornow 'Globe' Mobilities is proud to announce the most highly cited articles for current impact factor. These articles are testament to the original, theoretically-informed, international research that Mobilities seeks to address. Their popularity...
Welcoming our 2017-2018 Visiting Fellows
Cemore has an established tradition of offering fellowships to scholars external to the university and we are delighted to be able to formally announce the arrival of our most recent fellows for 2017-2018. We welcome them all to Lancaster and hope that they find their...
Mobile Utopia Conference: Storify
Mobile Utopia Conference Storify Our Social Media Storify represents just one strand of the outcomes and reflections we are currently gathering from the Mobile Utopia conference held between 2nd- 5th Nov 2017 at Lancaster University. Follow the Mobile Utopia...
Blood drone-topia?
by Stephanie Sodero ... What might the movement of blood look like in the future? More specifically how might blood transfusion and drone technology -- both war dividends -- intersect (Sandvik & Lohne 2014)? Here I explore four scenarios based on fieldwork,...
Mobile Utopia Experiment Lab
We had a fabulous day planning the mobile Utopia Experiment. These are some impressions. Read more here