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Automation, Labour and Future Mobilities

Automation, Labour and Future Mobilities

This reading group is an opportunity for us to explore how mobilities research is responding to pressing questions about robots, automation, and our technological futures. From the new kinds of micro-bodily movements that are created by these technologies, up to the...

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Spatial models and mobilities

Spatial models and mobilities

Dear All, The Cemore reading group will next meet on Wednesday 24th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab  at CeMoRe. What can mobilities and regional studies learn from each other? Let's sit together and discuss! There are two papers to be discussed. The first was probably...

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Infrastructuring: Notes from Russia

Infrastructuring: Notes from Russia

I'm still inspired by the presentations and discussions at the Conference on Living Infrastructures: Beyond Global North and Global South, April 27-28, 2017, at Volgograd State University. Andrey Kuznetsov and his colleagues brought together researchers from across...

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Mobile Cultures of Disaster Video

Mobile Cultures of Disaster Video

I've returned inspired from the Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference, 22 March - 24 March 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Supported by the Japan Foundation, the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia, the School of...

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Consumption and urban public space

Consumption and urban public space

The Cemore reading group will meet on Wednesday 10th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab to discuss: Prashan Ranasinghe. 2011. “Public Disorder and Its Relation to the Community-Civility-Consumption Triad: A Case Study on the Uses and Users of Contemporary Urban Public...

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CeMoRe Conference Launches New Book Series

CeMoRe Conference Launches New Book Series

Last month Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research hosted the inaugural conference of Palgrave Macmillan’s new book series, Mobilites, Literature, Culture.   The conference - which was organised by Lynne Pearce (from the Department of English and...

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