Bicycle Utopias聽investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition...
Imagine how communities and emergency agencies will respond to disasters like Storm Desmond in the future. Mobile technologies, drones, sensors, artificial intelligence, data analysis and mapping techniques will play an ever greater role, as will citizen...
CeMoRe聽and the聽Department of Sociology聽at 向日葵视频 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...
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 isITethical team are bringing creative ethical impact into innovation and the Internet of Public Safety Things. 聽The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases聽Workshop will take place on 4th December 2018. From the workshop description: The workshop aims to...
Read Lynne Pearce's full publication here聽. Published online 08 Sep 2018. "Everybody has their own personal path and is known by it 鈥 Paths have their stories, just as people do. (Ingold 2007, xvi)"聽 "In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in...
The Siegen Symposium 'On Time' was just inspiring. The organisers -聽Claudio Coletta (Antwerp),聽J枚rg Potthast,聽Tobias R枚hl, and聽Susann Wagenknecht (Siegen) set the scene with a careful and thought provoking position paper. They argue that: temporality and normativity...
聽Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, 鈥楳obility and the Humanities鈥 Mobilities, 12 (4) 2017 Merriman and Pearce took 鈥楳obility and the Humanities鈥 as an opportunity for 鈥榟ighlighting the 鈥済enre-defying鈥 approaches of many leading mobility scholars whose work transcends any...
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...