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,...
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....
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,...
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.
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...
James Faulconbridge’s research focuses on the now central role of mobility in both day-to-day social life and in the reproduction of business practices. Drawing on and contributing to work on the ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences, as well as work...