Call for Papers

Online Submission - all deadlines have now passed.

The conference theme

The conference will address all aspects of Mobilities research.

Mobilities research addresses not only the movement of people, objects, information, messages, risks and images through intersecting mobility-systems. It also explores the motivations, pleasures, pains and practices of stillness, of coordinating movement, blocking it, holding things in place, creating and maintaining social and material infrastructures.

Some likely past, present and future mobilities to be debated at the Conference include:

disasters
electric bikes
social networking
emergencies
military mobilities
experiences of being on the move
4G
space tourism
climate change refugees
oil wars
gendered, aged and ethnic mobilities

‘future mobile imaginaries’
citizen innovation
mobile art
mobile methods
food vs fuel 3D printing
Arctic mobilities slow travel
Chinese and Indian mobilities
high speed rail
and alternatives to corporeal travel

A key priority theme, reflecting current and urgent societal concerns, will be questions about limits to the expansion and sophistication of future Mobilities. Such questions mean considering if there are limits to mobility, what the limits are, and what consequences limits may have for people’s lives. It also means considering whether different mobilities might substitute for each other, whether this is likely or desirable, and how to design and bring about ‘good mobilities’ in a period of continued austerity?

Online Submission - all deadlines have now passed.

Fraunhofer

CeMoRe, Department of Sociology,Bowland North, Lancaster University, LA1 4YT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 592680 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 594256 E-mail: Pennie Drinkall