Dear Sir / Madame,
I should be very grateful if you could circulate this among members of the mailing list.
Best wishes
Javier
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Reminder: Deadline for the ISA ad-hoc session 'Urban Mobility Futures' in Gothenburg is the 1st of December 2009!
Please circulate widely!
Call for Papers:
Ad-hoc Session, ISA World Congress of Sociology 11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg
Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes
Organisers:
Cosmobilities Network, mobil.TUM
TU München, Germany
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Dr. Javier Caletrío
Centre for Mobilities Research
Lancaster University, UK
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Dr. Katharina Manderscheid
Department of Sociology
Univerity of Lucerne, CH
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Topic:
Peak oil and climate change have brought to the fore the centrality of mobility to social and economic life and the urgent pressures to develop alternative mobilities. Hosting half the world’s population, cities are increasingly important actors in achieving low carbon futures and privileged sites where the moral dilemmas of modern techno-utopias are being rehearsed. In the context of transport, sustainable futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Masdar city in Abu Dhabi or Dongtan ecocity in China and present distopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters.
We welcome contributions covering the following and related aspects of urban future mobilities:
(i) mobilities futures being created by current techno-social developments;
(ii) mobilities futures being envisioned by relevant political actors and what possible shortcomings do they entail from a sociological perspective;
(iii) conflicts between ecological restrictions and social needs concerning transportation;
(iv) the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes;
(v) the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice;
(vi) social and cultural forms implied in visions of future mobilities.
Please email your paper proposal including title, short description (200 words), your name, coauthors, email address and affiliation before 1 December 2009 to both session organisers
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