Mobilities and Wayfinding – Finding Our Way from A to B
Written by Dr Paul Symonds Mobilities is a subject area that encapsulates a range of topics that are grouped by movement. In a post-modern world, for example, this movement includes people, information, culture (Urry, 2007), and heritage (Lo Iacono, 2018).Whole...
Multiplanetary Futures
At this two-day workshop, drawing on a wide range of disciplines and approaches, participants will assess the state of the art of critical inquiry into multiplanetary futures, identify the significant social, cultural, political and philosophical questions raised by different multiplanetary imaginaries, and seek to identify productive new collaborative lines of inquiry.
Drone Justice: Witnessing the Anthropocene
Drone Justice: Witnessing the Anthropocene by Dr Adam Fish There is a lot of propaganda around drones being “disruptive” technologies. I have been empirically testing the disruptive potentials of drone practices through many diverse contexts throughout the world....
International Mobility Norway- MOVE Research
International Mobility Norway (IMN) is a newly established research group working on patterns of youth mobility from a perspective within the Norwegian/ Scandinavian context. It focuses on various forms of international mobility among young people, such as learning mobilities, leisure mobilities (tourism), employment mobilities, volunteering, etc.
Brexit and the need for a new urban eco-aesthetics in the UK
By Visting Scholar, Rodanthi Tzanelli Recently, while I was reading Perdita Phillips’ (2015) musings over the unresolved relationship between sustainability and eco-aesthetics, I began to consider the implications of the UK’s exclusion from the European Capital of...
Celebrating 12 years of Mobilities Journal: 3 Top Downloaded Articles
As we welcome the start of 2018, our Mobilities journal welcomes its 12th year of publication. Not only is Cemore grateful to the editing and publishing team, but also to all of the authors that make Mobilities happen. The team at Cemore would, therefore, like to...
isITethical? Residencies
IsITethical has been funded to develop a responsible research and innovation support service for innovation in disaster risk management. Between February and July 2018, we will undertake a series of 'residencies' with practitioners in disaster risk management and...
Time as a Missing Element in Social Analysis
As John Urry Fellow (2017 – 2018) I am focusing on the legacy of challenges left by his work on time and seeking a shared journey with others who are curious about them and their significance, or actively working on directly or tangentially related areas.
Mobilities in EASST2018 Conference
On 25-28th July, the 2018 EASST conference will take place at Lancaster University in association with Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies and Sociology. Call for papers is currently now open and you can visit the conference site here. The theme of the conference...
Learning to Use Better the Senses We Have
Developing new transport technologies and working better with the senses we already have as humans - Combining the two approaches was considered key to improving how we move in urban transport situations, by the participants of the Dance Your Vehicle: Becoming...
“Body-Drivers”: Reflections of 13th Dec Reading Group
An overview of 13th December Reading group: discussing Estonian traffic in Tallinn, the future of traffic and rethinking the pedestrian with the author, Tauri Tuvikene.
Flying Phones, Driverless Cars, KCE Conference 2017
Lancaster’s Bronislaw Szerszynski recently attended Knowledge/ Culture/ Ecology 2017 (KCE) in Santiago, Chile, 15-18th November. The conference’s key aims were to explore current transformations in socioecologies and to generate knowledge practises capable of...
The Beginnings of Airport City Futures (AirCiF)
Last week Cemore met with Lancaster’s James Faulconbridge to discuss his role in the new research project, AirCiF (Airport City Futures).
‘Mobility and the Humanities- 29th Nov discussion
Summary of reading group discussion 29th Nov: Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, ‘Mobility and the Humanities’.
Mobilities Journal’s Top Cited Articles for Current Impact Factor
View the Mobilities Journal’s top most highly cited articles to date and reflections of some of the authors.
Welcoming our 2017-2018 Visiting Fellows
We are delighted to be able to formally announce the arrival of our most recent Fellows for 2017-2018.
Mobile Utopia Conference: Storify
Follow the Mobile Utopia conference’s wonderful highlights and the attendees’ opinions through a conglomeration of social media posts.
Blood drone-topia?
by Stephanie Sodero ... What might the movement of blood look like in the future? More specifically how might blood transfusion and drone technology -- both war dividends -- intersect (Sandvik & Lohne 2014)? Here I explore four scenarios based on fieldwork,...