Mobile Tartu 2012 Mobile Phones, Geography, LBS
22-25 August 2012 in Tartu, Estonia
The aim of the conference is to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of mobile positioning based research and applications in geography and planning.
Mobile Tartu 2012 proposes special sessions on network analysis, emergency management and LBS business models.
The conference is [...]
Walking in the City: Quotidian Mobility and Ethnographic Method
Edited by Timothy Shortell, Ph.D., and Evrick Brown, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College CUNY
Local politicians, protesters, busy commuters, tourists, flâneurs, urban ethnographers. These social actors and many more work the city streets as an essential part of their quotidian routines. Everyday mobility on the [...]
The journal Research in Transportation Economics has just published special issue on gender and mobility.
It is called “Gender and Transport: Transaction costs, competing claims and transport policy gaps” and is edited by Professors Margaret Grieco and Ron McQuaid of Napier University, Edinburgh. This special issue is a very important start to [...]
Can Sustainable Tourism include Flying?
The University of Central Lancashire is hosting a debate on the question: Can Sustainable Tourism include Flying?
Are the social benefits brought to different parts of the world by tourism more important than the environmental damage caused by the emissions and use of fossil fuels?
Arguing that they are will [...]
PhD Course Mobillity & Mobile Methods
Organizer: Associate Professor Claus Lassen, Institute of Planning & Development, Aalborg University , email: claus@plan.aau.dk
Lecturers: Professor, Mimi Sheller, mCenter, Drexel University
Associate Professor Claus Lassen and Professor Ole B. Jensen
ECTS: 3
Time: May 8-10, 2012
Place: [...]
TOURISM MOBILITIES: Examining Tourism at Different Speeds
ICOT 23rd – 26th May 2012,
Archanes, Crete
Special session at “Setting the Agenda for Special Interest Tourism: Past, Present and Future”
This session explores the intersection between various kinds of tourism mobilities. It focuses especially on two fields which shape tourism mobilities, namely technology and the senses. [...]
Routes, Roads and Landscapes
Edited by Mari Hvattum and Janike Kampevold Larsen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway and Brita Brenna and Beate Elvebakk, University of Oslo, Norway
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and [...]
Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time, on Canada’s West Coast
by Phillip Vannini
The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and [...]
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012: 3rd to 5th July 2012, Edinburgh, UK.
Call for Papers: The Geographies of Leisure?
Organiser: Dr Tara Duncan (University of Otago)
Leisure has long been a topic of the geographical imagination. Whilst leisure studies and geography may have gone in somewhat separate directions in the past, the multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary [...]
Psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility
Freiburg, 3-6 July 2012
Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago are proud to announce the second call for papers (deadline February the 1st; see also http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012) for an international workshop on psychological [...]
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