Dear All,
Please see the following session proposal posted on behalf of my colleague Jim Leary ([log in to unmask])
Best wishes
Fay Worley
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Dear all,

Papers are being accepted for a session on Past Mobilities at this year's TAG conference in December at Birmingham University (http://centraltag.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/). Session abstracts (no more than 200 words) should be sent direct to the organiser by the end of October.

This session aims to discuss all aspects of mobility in the past, and papers on moving with animals would be very welcome. This could range from discussions of the physical act of herding, hunting and riding animals in the past, to the experience of moving in a landscape full of animals. Papers are encouraged to focus on the physical, experiential and embodied act of movement.

Past Mobilities

Organiser Jim Leary (English Heritage)

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The new mobilities paradigm has had a significant impact in the social sciences - particularly geography, sociology and anthropology (Ingold 2011; Adey 2010; Ingold & Vergunst 2008; Urry 2007; Creswell 2006), however, it has yet to have the same impact in archaeology. Despite this, mobility is fundamental to archaeology - all people move. This session aims to consider the importance of movement in the past in all its multifarious ways - from walking, canoeing and sailing, to horse riding and cart driving, and to recent mobility systems such as rail, car and air travel. It ranges from everyday mobility such as walking to get water or herding animals, to occasional mobilities such as travel to funerals or festivals, proscribed ceremonial movement, or dance; from solitary journeying to movement through bustling crowds; and from small-scale movements to large-scale migrations and diasporas. And not least it covers the hierarchies that develop as a result of differential mobility such as the difference between uninhibited movement compared to bounded or restricted movement, or the archaeology of the highly mobile (the fit, the youthful) compared to those that are less mobile (the ill, the old, the disabled, or the pregnant). The archaeological evidence for travel can take many forms: from the physical evidence of paths, roads and boats, to evidence for the movement of people, animals, and artefacts. Papers can consider any aspect that comes under the rubric of past mobility, but are encouraged to focus on the physical, experiential and embodied act of movement. This session aims to explore the relationship between archaeology and movement in order to develop a mobile archaeology and add an archaeological voice to the broader mobilities discussion.
Adey, P (2010) Mobility.London, Routledge Creswell, T (2006) On the move: the politics of mobility in the modern west.London, Routledge Ingold, T. (2011) Being alive. Essays on movement, knowledge and description.London, Routledge Ingold, T. and Vergunst, J. (eds.) (2008) Ways of walking. Ashgate Urry, J. (2007) Mobilities.London, Sage

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