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...
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'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.
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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....
9th November 2016 Southern, J. (2012). Comobility: How Proximity and Distance Travel Together in Locative Media. Canadian Journal for Communications, 37(1), 75–91. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract Mobile phones are becoming increasingly location-aware: they use and...
26th October 2016 Cresswell, T. 2010. Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1): 17-31. Chaired by Stephanie Bayne Sodero. Abstract This paper proposes an approach to mobility that takes both historical mobilities and forms of...
12th October 2016 Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2016). Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm. Applied Mobilities Online first. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract A new mobilities paradigm emerged a decade or so ago in the context of significant theoretical shifts,...
Camila Moraes presents her ongoing research on Brazilian favelas. She is concerned with the mobilization of these spaces as tourist attractions through various images and objects. Favelas of Rio de Janeiro became a product in view of the...