The Mobile Situations | Situated Media Postgraduate Workshop was a collaboration between the University of Siegen, Cemore, the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, the Centre for Science Studies and the University of Hamburg. the best part was talking to people...
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MA Modules: Mobilities, Society and Change
In the MA module MA937 Mobilities, Society, and Change, we explore a range of contemporary societal issues from a mobilities perspective. From the microbial scale of viral mobilities during global pandemics to the planetary mobilities of jet streams and ocean gyres,...
Undergraduate – Interdisciplinary Salon
As part of our 2/3rd year undergraduate course SOCL325 Disasters: Why do things go Wrong? we organised a 'Disaster Mobilities & Design Salon'. The aim was to enable interdisciplinary collaborations between sociology, media and cultural studies and design students....
Material Mobilities
C-MUS Conference, Aalborg University, November 29-30 2016 During the last decade of research affiliated to the ‘new mobilities turn’ the societal repercussions of intensive mobilities has been in focus. The ‘turn’ has documented the social, environmental,...
Mobilities Intersections Preview
Forthcoming Autumn 2016! This special issue brings together 12 contributions on intersections and intersectionalities of mobilities: Mobility Intersections: Social Research, Social Futures - Monika Büscher, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield Pedestrian circulations: urban...
Dog-walking therapeutic spaces
Catherine Smith, visiting reasearcher at Cemore this summer, writes about how she has used mobile methods to research dog walking practices and physiotherapy. Movement and physiotherapy research are inextricably linked; however, until dog-walking...
John Urry (1946-2016)
John's intellectual legacy and tributes website - http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/john-urry/ At our away day in June 2016, we made a video thinking about John.
Mobilities Journal: Latest
Visit the Mobilities Journal Website for the most recent articles http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmob20/current
The provocation of mobile utopias
The energy generated after my visit to CeMoRe in the summer of 2016 is still swirling around me in ways that are both pleasurable and intellectually unsettling. Both states are no doubt useful, welcome, and indeed necessary accompaniments to any honest scholarship....