What’s mobile: Researching disasters
Monika Büscher, professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and the director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, tells us what’s mobile about researching floods and earthquakes.
23 March 2016 Mobilities Reading
"Geolocation and Video Ethnography: Capturing Mobile Internet Used by a Commuter" by Voilmy, Smoreda & Ziemlicki, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Thanks to Visiting PhD Zofia Bednarowska for the suggestion. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...
Thomas More’s Utopia
Thomas More's Utopia will be discussed at this joint ISF/Mobilities Reading Group, 4-5PM, FASS Building, Meeting Room 1. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the discussion! The book is available in various formats here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130
Curating and reflecting upon a mobile interdisciplinary field
Allison Hui and James Faulconbridge have co-ordinated the 10th anniversary special issue of Mobilities journal.
Transitions and forms of engagement in single migrants’ lives
Maude Gauthier writes about her current research on the migration of singles while reflecting on how mobilities studies can help her in the process.
The (im)mobilities of Storm Desmond
Satya Savitzky uses his own experience of the flooding to blog about the series of ‘scrambles’ occurring in the aftermath of the dramatic events in Lancaster.
9 March 2016: Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and the Map App
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 9 March from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Eric Laurier, Barry Brown,, and Moira McGregor's "Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and...
Historical Mobilities
Are alternative ways of modelling the relationship between past, present and future in order to move historical and/or text-based mobilities research rather more to the centre?
The View from Outside – a Visiting Fellow’s Report
Ole Jensen talks about his time as a visiting fellow. “Hopefully this ‘traveler’s letter’ gives a small account of the benefits and positive outcome of my Visiting Fellowship. It cannot possibly justify the many ideas and inputs I had, but those will be surfacing during the time to come in various settings amongst one surely will be CeMoRe to which I am very pleased to keep up my affiliation.”
Mobility and beyond: the future of how we move
To understand the future of mobility we must prioritise all of the social activities and associated material infrastructures that create a need to be in particular places at particular times
24 February 2016: From Resonance to Interference: The Architecture of Concepts and the Relationships among Philosophy, Art and Science in Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 24 February from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Arkady Plotnitsky’s “From Resonance to Interference: The Architecture of Concepts and the...
Debt Mobilities
What happens when people start to default on their loans and when they cannot, or will not, repay? Joe Deville discusses his recently published book, Lived Economies of Default
The Bridge Project
The Bridge Project, funded under the EU FP7 Security Theme, is one amongst several international efforts to support professionals and volunteers in mobilising information and resources for disaster response.
Linking art, space and sustainability. Guy Simon’s seminar at Cemore
In the latest of our Cemore Seminar series, Simon Guy traces the impact and legacy of the sculptor Wolfgang Weileder’s situated and semantically fluid artworks. A video of Guy Simon's presentation from the seminar Catalyst: Art, Sustainability and Place...
What’s mobile: Mobilities of Situated Composition
My current research investigates what I am calling ‘situated composition’, referring to new possibilities for people with widely varying levels of expertise to carry out sound production due to the growing accessibility and mobility of digital sound tools.
Planetary mobilities. Why things move on a complex planet
We often think of planets as being in perfect kinetic and gravitational equilibrium, but this is seldom the case. Bronislaw Szerszynski shows us that all mobilities occurring in the Earth are, in fact, achievements of a far-from-equilibrium planet. In terms of...
The Marketization of Mobility: Some thoughts on Value, Movement and Classification
‘We often pull up skulls and bones in our nets.’ (Lampedusa fisherman to BBC reporter, April, 2015) Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe,...
10 February 2016: Diffracting the rays of technoscience: a situated critique of representation
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 10 February from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Federica Timeto’s “Diffracting the rays of technoscience: a situated critique of...