Challenges of the International Mobility of the Highly Skilled in the XXI Century
The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is pleased to invite you to the International Conference “Challenges of the International Mobility of the Highly Skilled in the XXI century”. This will be held the 7th and 8th [...]
Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2013, Los Angeles April 9-13th.
Session Title: Historical Mobilities and Gender
Session organisers: Dydia DeLyser (Louisiana State University) and Sarah Evans (University of the West of England).
The recent mobilities turn across the social sciences (Sheller and Urry 2006; Hannam 2006) has [...]
Special Issue “Sustainable Aviation: Opportunities and Limits to Flying into the Future”
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2013
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Despite considerable efforts, aviation is not developing in a sustainable way with respect to environmental issues such as climate change, noise, air quality and resource depletion; nor socially with respect to [...]
“Mobilities – Towards a Paradigm Shift in Tourism Research
10th Working Conference of the Commission for Tourism Research in the German Association for Volkskunde”
September 20-22, 2o12
Graz, Austria
For three days, we will discuss methodological and theoretical tools for researching tourism related mobilities in European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology.
The conference is mainly German speaking, apart from [...]
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement. Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility
Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube and Christof Roos
May 2012
Hardback £57.50
978-0-230-27784-7
Available as ebook
State borders are seen as institutions that regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples’
chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This [...]
Call for Papers for the Mobile Lives Forum’s 2nd International Meetings
at the Maison Rouge
January 24-25, 2013
Sustainable mobilities in peri-urban areas?
What lifestyles in the alter-urban/suburban rural/citta diffusa/Zwischenstadt?
In the past forty years, peri-urban areas have gradually become a major reference in urban life. Urban sprawl and fragmentation, car-dependent lifestyles [...]
Daily Spatial Mobilities. Physical and Virtual
Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa and Zefat Academic College, Israel
July 2012
252 pages
Hardback
978-1-4094-2362-1
£55.00
www.ashgate.com/
isbn/9781409423621
Outlining his argument for daily spatial mobility, author Aharon Kellerman focuses on needs and triggers for daily mobilities, on levels of personal mobility [...]
Cycling and Sustainability
Editor: John Parkin
Series: Transport and Sustainability v. 1
Series Editors: Stephen Ison and Jon Shaw
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 29 May 2012
ISBN: 9781780522982
ISSN: 2044-9941
Price: £67.95/€97.95/$124.95
Synopsis
Cycling and Sustainability explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many [...]
Call for Papers: Volume 2 Number 2 The Belonging Project/The Belonging Issue
As an integral part of human experience, ‘belonging’ is a ubiquitous concept in many areas of the humanities and social sciences and beyond. This is increasingly the case in the contemporary contexts of globalization, trans-nationalism, and the emergence of the network society, which [...]
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013
A Conference to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground
10 January 2013 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the public opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London. It was the world’s first urban rapid transport system to run partly in subterranean sections. As the precursor [...]
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