Therapeutic Mobilities: Mobilities Special Issue February 2019
This Special Issue published in February 2019 expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities. Therapeutic mobilities consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients,...
Thiago Allis, University of São Paulo, Brazil, John Urry Fellow Seminar: “Tourism Mobilities”
CeMoRe and the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University are thrilled to announce our John Urry Fellow for 2018-19, Thiago Allis, and to welcome him to Lancaster from 22nd January- 15th February 2019. Thiago will be the second awardee of the John Urry...
Making IT Personal: Radically Reflexive Resilience Monika Buscher Keynote @ISCRAM 2019 22-
Monika Buscher is a keynote speaker at the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Valencia, 19-22nd May. She will be discussing Futures of Disaster Response. Making IT Personal: Radically Reflexive Resilience The...
The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases
The isITethical team are bringing creative ethical impact into innovation and the Internet of Public Safety Things. The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases Workshop will take place on 4th December 2018. From the workshop description: The workshop aims to...
‘Walking out’: The Mobilities of Love
Read Lynne Pearce's full publication here . Published online 08 Sep 2018. "Everybody has their own personal path and is known by it … Paths have their stories, just as people do. (Ingold 2007, xvi)" "In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in...
Monika Buscher: How to Make IT Good? 21st February 2019
How to make IT good? Developing digital ethics as an engine for innovation Smart Transport, smart cities, smart sustainability endeavours put great trust in data and technology. However, to realise the potential of big data and IT effectively and responsibly, we must...
Bogotá’s innovative and ingenious mobilities
Regarded as one of the most mobility innovative cities in the Global South, Bogotá boasts the most extensive cycle network in Latin America, the most efficient bus rapid transit system in the world (TransMilenio) and the oldest mass cycle parade, the famous Ciclovía....
Health Data Mobilities & Ethics
The isITethical team are bringing creative ethical impact into innovation with big data in healthcare. The BIG HEALTH DATA & Privacy Preserving Practices Workshop will take place on 28th November 2018. From the workshop description: Big data has big potential for...
About time: Mobilities Transformation
The Siegen Symposium 'On Time' was just inspiring. The organisers - Claudio Coletta (Antwerp), Jörg Potthast, Tobias Röhl, and Susann Wagenknecht (Siegen) set the scene with a careful and thought provoking position paper. They argue that: temporality and normativity...
Welcoming our Visiting Scholar, Wescley Xavier: ‘The city as a product’
Cemore is delighted to welcome one of our latest visiting scholars, Wescley Xavier, to Lancaster University and introduce him to everyone associated with Cemore. If you would like to connect with Wescley during his time here with us then please feel free to ask to get...
Art and Mobilities: creative possibilities
I was lucky enough to be a 2017-2018 Centre for Mobilities Research CEMORE Visiting Fellow, Lancaster University. I worked closely with the Director of Mobilities Lab Dr Jen Southern, as well as Professor Emma Rose and Dr Linda O Keefe of the Lancaster...
Applications Open for the John Urry Fellowship Award 2018-19
We are delighted to announce that the call for applications for the second year of the John Urry fellowship award is now open. The deadline is 14 September 2018 and notification of acceptance will be 21 September 2018. John Urry (1946-2016) embodied the tradition of...
Cosmic Mobilities
While appreciating a summer-touched Lancaster as a Visiting Fellow at CeMoRe, I had numerous opportunities to consider the expanding repertoires of inquiry into mobilities. This was particularly so during the CeMoRe Away Day, where I had the chance to hear about a...
The Potential Implications of a Cashless Society
Joe Deville recently featured as an interviewee in Future Tense, a podcast and radio programme produced by the ABC, on the potential implications of a cashless society. Listen here>> "Most people these days use a mix of cash and digital payment options. The...
David Tyfield on BBC Radio 4 “Liberalism 2.0 and the Rise of China”
Screen shot source, BBC Radio 4 Radio 4 Producer: Jayne Egerton Listen to BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed, with David Tyfield and Yuen Yuen Ang>> Laurie Taylor from BBC Radio 4, talks to Yuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor of Political...
Between the Village and the Global City: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore
by Simon Peth, Harald Sterly and Patrick Sakapoldrak Abstract This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining the mobilities paradigm with the concept of...
The Nuclear Family Project: The Art Of Touring The Toxic, Pt 2
By Dr. Sharon Wilson, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University This is the second part of a 2-part series Dr. Wilson is writing on tourism and activism related to nuclear sites. For more about Dr. Wilson and her work, visit her faculty page. To read the first...
Art & Mobilities Network Symposium
Over the past 10 years the study and practice of Art & Mobilities has been gaining momentum through networks, conferences, books, special issues, exhibitions and in the practices of artists, writers and curators. In recognition of this activity we are forming an...