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...
Practices of car parking and the infrastructure of immobility – Karol Kurnicki
Practices of car parking and the infrastructure of immobility Karol Kurnicki, Institute of Advanced Study, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, kurnicki@gmail.com, @karol_kurnicki CeMoRe Seminar, 12th November 2019, Bowland North B67 My...
Why Fly? Sheffield Symposium on ‘Reducing academic flying’
Will I never fly again? As I'm preparing a short talk on the compulsions of proximity and connected presence of academic flying, I'm re-reading Dede Boden and Harvey Molotch's 'Compulsion of Proximity', Christian Licoppe's 'Connected Presence' and Jen Southern's...
Mobilities: August 2019 Issue 4
Mobilities: August 2019 Issue 4 A curated collection on the theme of 'digital technologies': Digital navigation and the driving-machine: Supervision, calculation, optimization, recognition Sam Hind Anticipating digital futures: Ruins, entanglements and possibilities...
DecarboN8 Network Launch 25th November 2019
25th November (Leeds) DecarboN8 Launch Event An introduction to DecarboN8’s place-based approach to decarbonisation for transport across the North of England. A full day event including insight from leading researchers and organisations in the field as well as...
Hartmut Rosa: Annual John Urry Lecture 31 October 2019
Hartmut Rosa: Annual John Urry Lecture
Care for Sale Talk 2nd December 2019
Care for Sale Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews Monday 2nd December 2019 Lancaster University Bowland North SR05, 14.00-16.00 In homes and brothels around the world, migrant women are selling a unique commodity:...
From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities Special Issue June 2019
From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities: Shifting the Debate Edited by Christiane Froehlich, Andrew Baldwin and Delf Rothe “The Anthropocene epoch,” as Claire Colebrook describes it, “appears to mark as radical a shift in species awareness as Darwinian...