CALL FOR PAPERS
Lancaster University Mobilities Group and the Department of Sociology
Alternative Mobility Futures
Conference to be held at Lancaster University, 9-11 January 2004
Technological, social and cultural developments in transportation, border
control, mobile communication, 'intelligent' infrastructure, surveillance and
global positioning are rapidly changing the conditions of possibility for all
forms of mobility. New ways of dwelling, communicating, and moving (as well as
policing, searching, and excluding) are emerging at the interface between
corporeal, imaginative, communicative, and virtual forms of travel and
habitation.
This international Conference seeks to explore the new possibilities for
'dwelling in mobility' and for 'mobilising dwelling' that are the focus of
recent work in sociology, geography, science studies, women's studies, and
transport, tourism, and travel studies. As mobile connectivity begins to occur
in new ways, what hybridisations of the mover and the moved, the dweller and
the dwelling, the human and the digital are occurring and what are some of
their likely consequences? What effects will these emerging alternative
mobility futures have on the constitution of the bodily, the local, the
regional, the national, the diasporic and the global?
We seek papers addressing one or more of the following questions:
* How are new technologies of information and mobile communication
replacing, converging with, or in other ways re-shaping 'older technologies'
and patterns of corporeal travel?
* How are new technologies of surveillance and information retrieval
affecting the constitution of borders, belonging, and 'out of place' bodies?
* What kinds of new 'risk society', what new 'disasters', are these
mobilities generating?
* In what ways does life 'on screen' replace, redirect, or re-scale life
'on the move'?
* Do 'cybercities' and 'intelligent' transport systems offer a new
connectivity that can solve the impasse of transportation failure and social
exclusion?
* How are the new possibilities for mobile communication changing the
boundaries between the private and the public, with what impact on forms of
citizenship, participation and democracy?
* How do the contemporary materialities of the 'mobile life' either
reproduce or challenge existing forms of difference and inequality?
The Conference will be organized by Dr Mimi Sheller ([log in to unmask])
and Prof John Urry ([log in to unmask]), Sociology Dept, Lancaster
University, LA1 4YL, UK. It is expected that there will be no more than 100
delegates. Costs will be kept to a minimum. Abstracts up to 100 words should be
sent by email to one of the organizers by March 10th, 2003.
Keynote speakers will include Caren Kaplan and Nigel Thrift.
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Call for Papers
The Economic Sociology Research Network of the ESA shall organise eight
sessions in the Sixth European Sociological Association Conference,
which
is to take place in Murcia, Spain, 23-26 September, 2003.
Colleagues wishing to participate are invited to submit electronically
an
ABSTRACT of 300 words approx. to the ESRN co-chairs, along with their
particulars and their complete postal and electronic address.
Send your abstract to: http://www.um.es/ESA/comunicacion_ingles.htm
The following list of topics/themes should serve as a guide but
proposals
that do not fit directly into these themes will also be welcomed.
- Economic Sociology and Sociological Theory
- Culture and Economy
- Economic Sociology of Work and Family
- The Economic Sociology of Capitalism
- The Economic Sociology of Institutions
- Civil Society, the State and the Economy
- Open Stream in Economic Sociology
- Open Stream in Economic Sociology
Deadlines
Deadline for submitting abstracts: end of February 2003.
Authors will be notified whether their abstract has been accepted for
presentation by April 30, 2003.
Accepted abstracts: Authors should submit their papers to the network
organisers electronically by the 15th of July, 2003.
For more information and other deadlines concerning the conference
itself
(e.g. fees, book of abstract, accommodation, venue, etc.) colleagues
should
consult the Conference WebPages regularly at: http://www.um.es/ESA/
Also consult the ESA WebPages at: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/
Economic Sociology Research Network Co-chairs
Patrik Aspers: [log in to unmask]
Sokratis Koniordos: [log in to unmask]
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