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Discourses and Ideologies of Mobility

Editorial Team

Katharina Manderscheid, Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Marcel Endres, Graduate Program Topology of Technology, Faculty of History and Social Sciences, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Christophe Mincke, Centre d’études sociologiques, Facultés universitaires Saint Louis, Brussels, Belgium.

In [...]

SGS Kongress 2013

26-28 June 2013, Bern

Workshop 09 on Mobility, Discourse and Inequality (in German)

Call for papers

Marcel Endres and Katharina Manderscheid organise a workshop on Mobility, Discourse and Inequality at the 2013 Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association. Deadline for abstracts is 28 February. See http://46.232.176.110/~sgs/images/Workshop_PDF_DE/CfW_09_DE.pdf for more information

Call for papers

Challenges for the International Mobility of the Highly Skilled in the XXI Century – Women in movement

7-8 February 2013
deadline for submitting an abstract (200 words): 1st of December.
 

Geographical mobility among professionals is a vital aspect of the knowledge society, and one which has to be carefully [...]

Call for papers

Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies

Pan-American Mobilities Network May 8-13, 2013

Conference website and abstract submission (deadline November 21st):
http://mobilities.ca/pamnet-4/

From May 8-11, 2013 the Mobile Media Lab in the Communication Studies department of Concordia University in Montreal will be hosting an international conference sponsored by the [...]

Job opening

Post-doctoral position at 80%

at the Humanities Faculty, Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux (MAPS)

(Laboratoire d’études transnationales et des processus sociaux), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
www.unine.ch/maps-chaire

We are seeking a highly motivated post-doc who will conduct research on the project “Transnational Mobility of Academics in the Early Stages of their Careers: [...]

Call for chapters for the proposed book

Planning and Religion – Exploring the Nexus in Developing Countries

Keywords: Religion, religious practices, cities, religious cities, space, mobility, gender, planning practices, master planning, Developing Countries, Asia
Deadline: 5th December 2012
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Proposed Publisher: Routledge Earthscan
Proposed series: Questioning Cities

Editors for the proposed [...]

Foucault and Mobilities Research

A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland

The publication in English and in German of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1970-1984 has been a key driver of the recent renaissance of research inspired by his work across the social sciences. As [...]

New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2012: 3-6 December, Napier, New Zealand.
 
Call for Papers: ‘The ‘Mobilities Turn’ and Geography’
Convened by Tara Duncan (University of Otago) and Maria Borovnik (Massey University)
 
It can be suggested that mobilities is a key component of the world today (Adey, 2010).  As [...]

Journal of Transport Geography

Volume 24, Pages 1-546 (September 2012)

Special Section on Theoretical Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation in Transport

Edited by David Banister, Tim Schwanen and Jillian Anable

see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09666923/24/supp/C