Mobilities Journal: Co-Editor NEWS
This December 2020 issue is a super mix of individual articles.
Mobilities: April 2021 Vol.16 Issue 2
This December 2020 issue is a super mix of individual articles.
Climate Emergency Mobilities: Our Manifesto
CeMoRe is making the climate emergency its research focus from 2020-2025, recognizing that mobilities of every kind of scale are integral to the climate emergency and hold the greatest promise for transformation. Read our Manifesto statement and register your interest if you want to be kept in touch with this initiative.
Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Call for Papers and Presentations.
Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences. CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS. A one day symposium organised by (Arts) Territory Exchange, Centre for Mobilities...
DecarboN8 Celebrate Earth Day
To celebrate Earth Day the DecarboN8 network, which CeMoRe is part of, has launched the video ‘Will electric cars stop the climate emergency?’.
Im|Mobilities: Call for Artworks
Call for artworks for Art & Mobilities Exhibition The work will be hosted within the conference virtual platform at Im|mobile lives in turbulent times: Methods and Practices of Mobilities Research conference. Thursday July 8th and Friday July 9th 2021, hosted by...
New Lecture Series on ‘Mobility Humanities’
Lynne Pearce, CeMoRe Co-Director (Humanities) discusses her lecture series with CeMoRe’s new partner Konkuk university.
Call for papers: ‘Real Zero’ in a Hurry: place-based decarbonisation for transport
Please see below details for what we hope will be an exciting virtual international conference being co-ordinated by the DecarboN8 research network. We are open to a very wide range of ideas and contributors from different sectors as well as having a strong...
Mobilities: February 2021 Vol.16:01
This December 2020 issue is a super mix of individual articles.
Mobile Kitchenette: Children’s Mobilities
Harriet Phipps and Nicola Spurling reflect on their mobile kitchenette session on Children’s Mobilities. A topic that we have both been focusing on in our own research, mine in my PhD research on children’s agency in climate change, and Nicola in her DecarboN8 project.
Mobilities: DECEMBER 2020
This December 2020 issue is a super mix of individual articles.
Winter Webinar 2020
The winter webinar, held on 10th December 2020 offered an opportunity for members and associates of CeMoRe to come together and explore the theme of its new 5 year programme to address the climate emergency. The event involved nine talks, each lasting 5 minutes, provided by Lancaster’s CeMoRe members new and old with multiple opportunities for discussion.
Moving EVs beyond automobility culture
Electric Vehicles (EVs) which mimic the current car-based system, are not the answer to the epochal challenge of decarbonising transport.
CeMoRe’s Associate Director, Carlos López Galviz, to lead prestigious international association
Dr Carlos López Galviz, a Senior Lecturer in Lancaster’s Institute for the Contemporary Arts and one of CeMoRe’s Associate Directors has been elected as the new President of T2M, the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility.
CeMoRe’s 5 Year Programme to Address the Climate Emergency
The movement of people, materials, information and capital pose the greatest carbon challenge but hold the greatest promise for avoiding catastrophic climate change.
This will be the key focus for Lancaster University’s internationally renowned Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), established in 2003, which, this month, embarks on a new five-year programme of activities to address the climate emergency.
The Centre will explore alternative societies based on transformed patterns, scales, frequencies and modes of movement, and work with the people who will be part of these transformed worlds, ensuring a sensitivity to everyday life, inequality and justice.
This new focus for the Centre coincides with the appointment of Dr Nicola Spurling (Sociology) as its new Director.
Building on the work of Lancaster University’s Professor Monika Buscher and the late Professor John Urry, Dr Spurling is keen to ensure that CeMoRe maintains its international reputation as the ‘home’ of mobilities scholarship but with the added impetus of helping to bring about the societal changes necessary for positive change to high carbon ways of life.
“Mobilities scholarship has already made major contributions – theoretical, methodological and practical – to issues of climate change, but this has only scratched the surface of what is possible,” said Dr Spurling.
“This five-year programme represents a renewed ambition to extend and develop mobilities scholarship from across the humanities and social sciences and intervene in this ever-more pressing global challenge and how it is tackled.
“As the world leader in mobilities scholarship across an ever-increasing range of disciplines – including Arts and Humanities, Management Studies, Health and Medicine as well as the Social Sciences – CeMoRe is uniquely positioned to lead on a Climate Emergency research programme.”
Work already underway includes:
· Working with communities across the North of England to co-design alternative low carbon transport futures (as illustrated by CeMoRe’s involvement in the multi-institutional DecarboN8 programme)
· Developing the agency of children in climate change policy (postgraduate project);
· Working with collaborators at Aalborg University on Airport City Futures (https://vbn.aau.dk/en/projects/airport-city-futures)
· Facilitating public labs internationally in Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba through Gridding Equitable Urban Futures (http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/great/).
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Mobilities: october 2020
This special issue is about the ways in which mobilities, as they are made and lived, tamper with a multiplicity of entwined normative and temporal orderings.
CeMoRe Mobile Kitchenette
The first get together of CeMoRe's new online group critique, coffee and informal chat session for staff and PhD students, the CeMoRe Mobile Kitchenette will take place on Weds 9th Dec 2020 11.00-11.45. In these uncertain times we are missing out on the usual...
John Urry Lecture 2020: Covid-19, Mobilities and Futures
John Urry Lecture with Tim Cresswell, Mimi Sheller and Noel Salazaar