Mobilities: August 2020 Issue 4
Mobilities: April 2020 Volume 15 Issue 4 To all our readers, authors, and colleagues we extend our good wishes for your health and safety during this global crisis - we hope you enjoy this summer holiday edition! Technological change and sociocultural models in...
Mobilities: June 2020 Issue 3
Mobilities: April 2020 Volume 15 Issue 3 To all our readers, authors, and colleagues we extend our good wishes for your health and safety during this global crisis - please stay well and as immobile as possible! Exploring Velotopian Urban Imaginaries: Where Le...
Notes on Unruly Landscapes
The unruly landscapes conference has lasting inspirational momentum. The discussions begun during the conference and the panel on 'Unruly Viral Landscapes' and the impact of Corona Virus on our societies has carried on online. A wide range of scholars have provided...
Lancaster Builds New Link with Ancient Italian University
24 June 2020 08:01The MoU was signed by Lancaster’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global), Professor Simon Guy (right), and the Pro-Rector for International Relations of Padua University, Professor Alessandro Paccagnella. The centre photograph shows Padua University’s elegant...
Walking Seminars and the infrastructure of immobility
I spent three weeks at CeMoRe in the autumn of 2019 for a research stay as part of my project about car parking in cities. I have been familiar with the excellent work done by researchers in the centre, so visiting it was a natural choice. Previously, I had a chance...
Reflections from Visiting CeMoRe
My name is Ragnhild Dahl Wikstrøm, and I’m a PhD research fellow in Human Geography at the University of Oslo. As part of my PhD I was based at CeMoRe and Lancaster University for almost six months. In 2018, I had the pleasure of meeting the director of CeMoRe, Monika...
COVID-19, Storms, and Academics
As HK professor at the Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, which was launched in 2018 to promote mobility studies from a humanities perspective, I am primarily focused on designing AMH’s research plans, publications, and...
A Great Mobility Transformation
This is a blog post published along contributions from Bryan S. Turner, Ingrid Piller, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Brent Greve, Jillian Rickly, Stephanie Walsh Matthews, Stephanie Jane Nawyn, Debora Lupton, Anthony Elliott, Sharon Varney, Robert van Krieken by DeGruyter...
Covid-19: Other mobilities are (im)possible
Other Mobilities are possible Monika Büscher, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University Other mobilities are possible. But will a systemic shock engender systemic change? Covid-19 (aka Coronavirus) has shut down air travel and the global economy, and...
CFP: Unruly Landscapes, June 18-19, ONLINE
A Carbon Neutral and Virus Safe Colloquium Co-hosted by CeMoRe (Lancaster) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility Humanities (University of Padua) June 18-19 2020, Online While the vast numbers of publications dedicated to the study...
The politics of debt and mobilities research
In this post, Benjamin Schwarz, a visitor to Cemore, presents part of what he worked on during his research stay, a part of his PhD project on the everyday narratives of people struggling with debt. The post focuses on an analysis of the politics of debt in Denmark lived through as a cleansing procedure.
Postponed: Are we ready for IT? Data Mobilities Workshop
Is Society Ready for IT? Or is IT Ready for Society? Monika Buscher and Birgit Moesl are running a workshop at the now postponed Public Safety Communications Europe Network Conference. This is inspired by rapid changes in public safety communications and a need to...
Mobile Utopia Special Issue is Out!
Dear colleague The special issue ‘Mobilities and Utopias: A Critical Reorientation’ Volume 15 Issue 1, is out! It arose from the conference ‘Mobile Utopia: pasts - presents – futures’ held at Lancaster University, UK in November 2017: Mobilities and Utopias: A...
DecarboN8 considers societal readiness of innovations in climate change technology and policy
The first DecarboN8 Workshop aims to explore the scale of the challenge and put the ambition of proposed innovations (in practice, technology, and policy) into context. How are we doing in relation to the targets set in Paris in 2015, how can we enhance the societal...
Healthcare, Mobilities and National Health Systems Workshop Agenda
People move across international borders, often along unpredictable paths. Systems for the delivery of healthcare are largely fixed in place. This workshop is designed to foster discussion of healthcare and mobility, drawing on the insights of interdisciplinary...
Apply Now: EPSRC DecarboN8 Research Funding Call No# 1
We are pleased to announce that the first DecarboN8 seedcorn funding call is now open for applications. For detail, visit the DecarboN8 Network Website. For a quick overview, see below. For full details and application forms please visit our funding page. The deadline...
Panel @ Im|mobile lives in turbulent times: Methods and Practices of Mobilities Research
We're planning a panel on Applied Mobilities and Mobile Methods at Im|mobile lives in turbulent times: Methods and Practices of Mobilities Research The conference takes place 9-10 July 2020, at Northumbria University. More soon here. For more information about the...
New Project: Doctors within Borders
Summary: Contemporary healthcare systems assume that the people for whom they provide care belong to populations that are largely settled. Yet, we know that people are moving, with migration and health a challenging issue in contemporary society. How do health systems...