This is a blog post published along contributions from Bryan S. Turner, Ingrid Piller, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Brent Greve, Jillian Rickly, Stephanie Walsh Matthews, Stephanie Jane Nawyn, Debora Lupton, Anthony Elliott, Sharon Varney, Robert van Krieken by DeGruyter...
Other Mobilities are possible Monika Büscher, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University Other mobilities are possible. But will a systemic shock engender systemic change? Covid-19 (aka Coronavirus) has shut down air travel and the global economy, and...
Benjamin Schwarz Last summer, I had the pleasure of undertaking a research stay at CeMoRe, as part of my ongoing PhD research based at Roskilde University in Denmark. During my stay, I was fortunate to receive supervision from CeMoRe Co-director Joe Deville, with...
Dear colleague The special issue ‘Mobilities and Utopias: A Critical Reorientation’ Volume 15 Issue 1, is out! It arose from the conference ‘Mobile Utopia: pasts - presents – futures’ held at Lancaster University, UK in November 2017: Mobilities and Utopias: A...
Will I never fly again? As I'm preparing a short talk on the compulsions of proximity and connected presence of academic flying, I'm re-reading Dede Boden and Harvey Molotch's 'Compulsion of Proximity', Christian Licoppe's 'Connected Presence' and Jen Southern's...
Mobilities: August 2019 Issue 4 A curated collection on the theme of 'digital technologies': Digital navigation and the driving-machine: Supervision, calculation, optimization, recognition Sam Hind Anticipating digital futures: Ruins, entanglements and possibilities...
John Urry Lecture 2019: Social Acceleration, Dynamic Stabilization and the Desire for Resonance: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Modernity. Hartmut Rosa, Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Affiliated Professor at the New...
Care for Sale Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews Monday 2nd December 2019 Lancaster University Bowland North SR05, 14.00-16.00 In homes and brothels around the world, migrant women are selling a unique commodity:...
Mobilities: October 2019 Issue 5 This bumper issue includes a diverse geographical spread with some linked articles. When urban environments meet pedestrian’s thoughts: implications for pedestrian affect. Thomas Calvert, Juliet Jain & Kiron Chatterjee ‘Running on...