Welcome to the Mobilities Lab
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,...