Profile

Contact

Please email me jcaletrio@gmail.com

 

BA (Economics) (Valencia, Spain), MA (with Distinction) (Sociology, Lancaster University, UK), PhD (ESRC funded) (Sociology, Lancaster, UK).

 

Academic activities

2006 ? present: Research Fellow and member of the Management Committee of the Centre for Mobilities Research. Member of the Mobilities.lab (CeMoRe).

2006 ? present: co-founder and co-coordinator of the Mediterranean Mobilities Research Network.

2012 ? present: Scientific advisor, Mobile Lives Forum (Paris).

2013: Visiting fellow, ESPM, Sao Paulo (Brazil).

2012: Visiting fellow, University of Cagliari (Italy).

2007 ? 2011: Member of the Permanent Support Committee of Medyre (Mediterranean Network of Young Researchers, created under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

 

Research

My research looks broadly at mobilities, future imaginaries, technological change and global warming from a cross-cultural perspective. I am particularly interested in the Mediterranean, South America and South East Asia.

Currently, main strands of research are:

(i)                 elites and their role in shaping mobility infrastructures and travel aspirations of everyday people;

(ii)               mobilities and future imaginaries;

(iii)             mobilities and the senses;

(iv)             visual research methods.

 

Research projects

2012-2015 ? Space, imaginaries and tourism Mobilities in times of crises. Proyecto de Investigación i+d. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciencie and Education.

2010-2011 ? Emerging middle classes and low-carbon mobilities - Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) and CeMoRe. Funded by the British Academy.

2008-2011 ? Tourism, territory and new mobilities: Spatial and cultural dynamics through a comparative study of case studies in Mexico and Spain. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciencie and Education.

2008-2009 ? Climate change, tourism and sense of place in Mediterranean seaside resorts. Funded by European Regional Agency.

2004-2007 ? Tourism and sustainable development: Local effects of global discourse through comparative case studies in Spain and Mexico. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciencie and Education.

2006 ? Mobilities research in the Mediterranean. Funded by the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University.

2004-2005 ? Developing an interdisciplinary approach to address environmental and social issues resulting from changes in the English Lake District. ESRC - Rural Economy and Land Use Programme.

 

Publications

Edited book

(2013) Elite Mobilities, Routledge (with Thomas Birtchnell).

 

Special Issues

(2013) Moving Boundaries in Mobilities Research, Sociologica (with Giuliana Mandich).

 (2011) Mobilities and Forced Migration, Mobilities 6 (3) (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason).

 

Journal articles, book chapters and monographies

(2013) ?This is not me': Conspicuous Consumption and Travel Aspirations of European Middle Classes. In T. Birtchnell and J. Caletrío (eds). Elite Mobilities, London, Routledge.

(2012) Simple Living and Tourism in Times of 'Austerity', Current Issues in Tourism 15 (3): 275-279.

 (2011) Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration, Special Issue Mobilities 6 (3): 301-316 (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason).

 (2011) Tourism, Landscape Change and Critical Thresholds,  Annals of Tourism Research 38 (1): 313-316.

(2011) 'De veraneo en la playa': pertencimento e o familiar no turismo de massa no Mediterrâneo. Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) 24 (47) January/June.

(2009) 'Veraneo en la playa': Belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism. In Pau Obrador, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou (Eds). Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities. Ashgate, 2009.

(2009) Perceptions and reality: The role of research and education. In Jafar Jafari and Eduardo Fayos-Solà (eds). Climate Change and Tourism: Reality and Fiction. World Tourism Organization.

(2009) Climate Change, Tourism and Sense of Place in Mediterranean Seaside Resorts. Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.

 

Recent Conference papers

Policy

(2009) Roundtable The Emerging Academic Space in the Mediterranean. Euro-Mediterranean Permanent University Forum. University de Saint Joseph, Beirut, 25 October.

 

Academic

(2011) 'Mass tourism in the Mediterranean', PhD Seminar Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, 5 September.

(2011) 'On the beach, waiting for catastrophe: Time, tourism and climate change.' Departamental Seminar, Sociology, Universidade Federale Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, 2 September.

(2011) 'This is not me: Conspicuous consumption and travel aspirations of the middle classes'. Emerging Middle Classes and Low Carbon Mobilities Workshop 2. Rio de Janeiro, 29 August - 1 September.

(2011) 'On the beach, waiting for catastrophe: Time, tourism and climate change.' Emerging Middle Classes and Low Carbon Mobilities Workshop 1. Lancaster, 15-17 February.

(2010) 'Low carbon tourist practices and landscape change.' CERES (Centre d'Études et de Recherches Économiques et Sociales). Tunis, 9-12 March.

(2009) 'Mobilizing Dialogue: Mobilities Research and Interpersonal Relations across Cultural Boundaries.' Institute of Oriental Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Leipzig, 25 September.

(2009) 'What if Benidorm is not that bad after all?' Social and cultural limits to low carbon tourism landscapes in the Mediterranean. Urban Space and Social Inequalities Workshop. Lancaster, 5 June.

(2008) 'Veraneo en la playa: Belonging and the Familiar in Mediterranean Mass Tourism', Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities Conference. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2 October.

(2008) 'Mediterranean Cosmopolitanisms and the Mobilities Paradigm', Young Scholars Plenary Session, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Slovene Filarmonica, Ljubljana, 29 August (co-authored with Ramon Ribera-Fumaz)

(2007) 'Mediterranean Studies, Braudel and the Mobilities Paradigm', Encuentro Jóvenes Investigadores del Mediterráneo, Tarragona, 3 May.

(2007) 'Researching Mediterranean Mobilities', CeMoRe Research Day, Lancaster, 16 May.

 

Journal Referee

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Body & Society, Mediterranean Politics, Contexts, Local Government Studies, Annals of Tourism Research.

 

Conference organisation

I am the co-onvenor of a seminar series on the challenges facing the Mediterranean in the 21st century. Funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Faculty of Arts and Scoail Sciences, and the Centre for Mobilities Research (with the additional support of the Geography Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Read more.

Büscher, M., Caletrío, J., Drinkall, P., Faulconbridge, J., Southern, J., Tyfield, D., Urry, J., Wood, L. (2013) Future Mobilities, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, September.

Caletrío, J., Mandich, G. (2012) Moving Boundaries in Mobilities Research, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, July.

Caletrío, J. (2010) Workshop on Turbulent Trade Routes, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, November.

Birtchnell, T., Caletrío, J. Urry, J. (2010) Mobilities of the Super-Rich, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.

Caletrío, J. and Mason, V. (2010) Panel on Forced Migration and (Im)Mobilities in the Middle East, World Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, July.

Caletrío, J. and Manderscheid, K. (2010) Cosmobilities Ad-hoc Session, Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes, International Sociological Association -World Congress of Sociology 2010, Gothenburg, July.

Caletrío, J. (2010) Seminar on The Limits of Hospitality. Guest speaker: Heidrun Friesse. Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster, May.

Caletrío, J., Gill, N., and Mason, V. (2009) Conference on Forced Migration and Mobilities Research, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, December.

Caletrío, J. and Medd W. (2008) Mediterranean Waters: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Urban Infrastructure and Sustainable Futures, Institute for Advanced Studies, November.

Caletrío, J. and Córdoba-Azcárate, M. (2008) Conference on Luxury Consumption and Tourism Landscapes in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.

Caletrío, J. and Fumaz-Ribera, R. (2007) Conference Panel 'Political Geographies of the Mediterranean', Institute of British Geographers - Royal Geographical Society, London, August.

Caletrío, J. and Tzanelli, R. (2007) Conference on Cosmopolitan Paradoxes: Migration and Emergent Systems of Transnational Rights, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, May.

Caletrío, J. and Fumaz-Ribera, R. (2006) Conference on 'Rediscovering the Mediterranean', Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, November.

Caletrío, J. (2006) Conference on 'Emerging Tourism Futures', Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, July.

 

International cooperation

In order to exchange views with other scholars and organisations with an interest in the Mediterranean I am convening the research network mediterranean mobilities with my colleagues Elia Ntaousani (architect and philosopher at Birbeck College, University of London and Tate Modern), Matilde Córdoba-Azcárate (anthropologist and sociologist at Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (economist and geographer at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). The aim of this network is to promote and communicate transdisciplinary and transnational academic research on the challenges facing the Mediterranean in the 21st century. I am currently co-organising a Seminar Series funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Centre for Mobilities Research on Medierranean mobilities, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (see below).

My interest in area studies is complemented with my participation in the research team 'Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities' located at Madrid's Universidad Complutense and working on comparative studies in Spain and Mexico. The research team is led by Prof Juan Córdoba. I am also member of the Latin American Research Cluster at Lancaster University.