We are delighted to announce that the call for applications for the second year of the John Urry fellowship award is now open. The deadline is 14 September 2018 and notification of acceptance will be 21 September 2018. John Urry (1946-2016) embodied the tradition of...
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Cosmic Mobilities
While appreciating a summer-touched Lancaster as a Visiting Fellow at CeMoRe, I had numerous opportunities to consider the expanding repertoires of inquiry into mobilities. This was particularly so during the CeMoRe Away Day, where I had the chance to hear about a...
The Potential Implications of a Cashless Society
Joe Deville recently featured as an interviewee in Future Tense, a podcast and radio programme produced by the ABC, on the potential implications of a cashless society. Listen here>> "Most people these days use a mix of cash and digital payment options. The...
David Tyfield on BBC Radio 4 “Liberalism 2.0 and the Rise of China”
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...
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...