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News Archive May 200926/05/2009 Edited by Timo Ohnmacht, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, Hanja Maksim, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland and Manfred Max Bergman, University of Basle, Switzerland This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect the structuring of the social fabric, the focus of the book is to illuminate these processes of social and spatial re-structurings. A leading team of contributors from the Cosmobilities network highlight different aspects of inequality in relation to mobilities, such as gender, supplying transport infrastructure, job-related relocations, multi-locality, social network geography, and socio-spatial development. Contents: Foreword; Introduction: mobilities and inequality, Timo Ohnmacht, Hanja Maksim and Manfred Max Bergman; Part I Theory, Concepts, and Findings on Mobilities and Inequality: Mobilities and inequality - making connections, Timo Ohnmacht, Hanja Maksim and Manfred Max Bergman; Unequal mobilities, Katharina Manderscheid; Life-course inequalities in the globalisation process, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz and Dirk Hofäcker; Metaphors of mobility - inequality on the move, Jonas Larsen and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Part II Empirical Applications: Mobilities and social network geography: size and spatial dispersion - the Zurich case study, Andreas Frei, Kay W. Axhausen and Timo Ohnmacht; Social integration faced with commuting: more widespread and less dense support networks, Gil Viry, Vincent Kaufmann and Eric D. Widmer; Here, there, and in-between: on the interplay of multilocal living space and inequality, Nicola Hilti; Class divides within transnationalisation - the German population and its cross-border practices, Steffen Mau and Jan Mewes; Residential location, mobility and the city: mediating and reproducing social inequity, Markus Hesse and Joachim Scheiner; Mobility and the promotion of public transport in Johannesburg, Ursula Scheidegger; Index. SEE FULL CONTENTS LIST: http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Mobilities_and_Inequality_Cont.pdf 26/05/2009 Edited by Timo Ohnmacht, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, Hanja Maksim, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland and Manfred Max Bergman, University of Basle, Switzerland This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernization, globalization, migration and social change affect the structuring of the social fabric, the focus of the book is to illuminate these processes of social and spatial re-structurings. A leading team of contributors from the Cosmobilities network highlight different aspects of inequality in relation to mobilities, such as gender, supplying transport infrastructure, job-related relocations, multi-locality, social network geography, and socio-spatial development. EE FULL CONTENTS LIST: http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Mobilities_and_Inequality_Cont.pdf 2/05/2009 Why do we choose specific modes of transport and what are the perceived rationalities for our choice? How are different theoretical concepts within mobility research actually perceived and lived in everyday life? At this book's core is a conceptual and empirical contribution to critical mobility research. It focuses on the tension between freedom and unfreedom, articulated through the dichotomy between individuality and community, as well as critical perspectives on the multitude of unintended consequences of mobility. In a range of everyday life narratives, this tension is analyzed through the concept of 'structural stories'. In teasing out the ambivalences of late modern everyday life, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen exposes how mobility both generates and helps to overcome and live with these ambivalences. Author http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mobility-Daily-Life-Transport-Society/dp/0754674908/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1245440569&sr=8-1 19/05/2009 A memoir by Wadad Makdisi, Beiruti citizen and mother in law of Edward Said. Her accounts viviedly illustrate how partition disrupted daily and seasonal mobilities in the Levant, especially between Beirut and Jerusalem. ‘There can be few commentaries that convey so vividly such a relentless, tragically unfolding history, while also offering such a fierce celebration of the diversity of Lebanese life. The Arab world loved by Makdisi Cortas, a world of Muslims, Christians and Jews where there were ‘no strangers’ can still provide a model and hope for the future.’ http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-I-Loved-Story-Woman/dp/1568584296/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245483683&sr=8-2 17/05/2009 International Sociological Association Annual Conference, Gotenburg | 11-17 July 2010 Organizers: Javier Caletrío, Lancaster University, UK, j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk and Katharina Manderscheid, Lancaster University, UK, k.manderscheid@lancaster.ac.uk 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, urban futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Dongtan ecocity in China and present and future dystopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters. This session explores futures of urban mobilities paying special attention to (i) what kind of mobilities futures are being created by current techno-social developments; (ii) the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes (iii) the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice, and (iv) what social and cultural forms are implied in visions of future mobilities. 16/05/2009 EHESS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris, séminaire associé au IIAC, équipe LAIOS. Saskia Cousin (IIAC-LAIOS / CITERES, anthropologue, mcf à l’Université François-Rabelais); Bertrand Réau (CRIS, mcf à l’Université de Lyon-I); Sylvain Pattieu (historien, Paris 8. | 1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h (salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, sauf le 27/11, en salle 007),du 16 octobre au 18 juin. Renseignements : saskia.cousin@univ-tours.fr Pour la quatrième année, nous poursuivons notre exploration des recherches menées sur le tourisme. Il s’agira toujours croiser les terrains et les approches disciplinaires, en donnant cette année une place plus importante aux historiens et aux géographes. Nous avons également voulu faire mieux connaître les recherches menées à l’étranger, tant du point de vue des méthodes et des concepts, qu’en termes d’organisation scientifique. 6 chercheurs nous aideront à faire le point sur ce sujet. Comme chaque année, nous alternerons les interventions de chercheurs confirmés et de doctorants. Les séances seront organisées autour de la présentation d’un ou de deux intervenant (s), suivie d’une mise en perspective avec un discutant, et d’une discussion avec les participants. Ce séminaire est associé au LAIOS. Il est ouvert à toutes les personnes qui s’intéressent à la recherche sur le tourisme et les mobilités de loisirs. 7 mai : Simone Abram, Université de Leeds, CTCC (Royaume-Uni) : « Movement, Nature and Nationalism: understanding the significance of holiday homes ». - Tim Neal, Université de Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) : « The perfect place : situating British migrants in rural France » 28 mai : Pal Nyiri, Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) : « Tourism and Modernity in China » 4 juin : Pascal Ory, Université de Paris 1 : « Retour sur l'invention du bronzage » 18 juin : Maria Gravari-Barbas, Université de Paris 1, EIREST : « Temps et espaces de l’événement urbain ». 2/05/2009 Lucerne, Switzerland | November 5–8, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - Energy and Innovation - The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its Seventh International Conference to be held at the Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne, Switzerland from November 5th till the 8th, 2009. The conference is organised by historians from different universities as well as by the Swiss Museum of Transport. Switzerland’s most visited museum celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2009 and is being rebuilt and expanded for this occasion at the time. This year the conference theme is ‚Energy and Innovation’. The CfP asks for papers in this thematic field but it is at the same time open to all subjects in the history of transport, traffic, and mobility. The language of the conference is English. Traffic is motion and therefore energy is imperative. It doesn’t matter what, how or where to one moves – performance, or the conversion of energy into motion, is always preconditioned. The modernisation of traffic since the 18th century can be seen as a process in the course of which means of transport that relied in the end on solar energy were replaced by means of transport that relied on nonrenewable energy. Thus, the focus was shifted from the likes of walking, rowing, sailing, horseback riding and the usage of animal traction to mechanical means of transport such as the steam engine, the combustion engine and rocket propulsion.Where did the question of energy figure in the acceleration and intensification of traffic? Where in the choice of a means of transport, in the question ‘street or ship’? How was energy efficiency for new machines increased? Conversely, how was their environmental pollution reduced? Why did one choose a specific propulsion? How did the price of energy affect the price of transport and mobility? How big was the influence of private traffic and energy business thereby, how great the weight of governmental politics? According to economist Joseph Schumpeter, innovations are elementary improvements that shake the economy and the community which means in this case that they produce new means of transport such as train, car or plane. Which economical, social, cultural and political conditions leveraged which means of transport? Innovations never were the result of mere business calculations and engineering efforts. Behind those were always sociocultural factors such as the ideology of freedom, the appetite for adventure and discovery or the play instinct and surge for fame. Also, new combinations of existing means of transport could lead to innovation. Proposals which connect the two conference topics (energy and innovation) are eminently favoured: How was the velocity of a means of transport increased without a multiplication of energy consumption? Do new means of transport prevail mainly in times of war and crisis? Could premodern and antiquated means of transport increase their efficiency under the pressure of competition of new modes of drive as for example the fast sailing ships that came up under the pressure of the steam boat around 1850? Is a renaissance of premodern and environmentally sound means of transport imaginable? T2M 2009 wants to invest more energy into communication. Posters of all oral presentations will be exhibited in the public area of Switzerland’s most visited museum. This innovation will contribute to better promotion of the history of transport, traffic and mobility as a scientific discipline and as a public service. Submission of a fully completed poster form (1 page A4) is mandatory for all speakers. Posters will be judged. Poster forms will be made available later on the website of the programme committee. The deadline for abstracts and a short CV (max one page each; Word or rich text format only) is the 15th April, 2009. Session proposals should also include a one-page overview of the session. Please send proposals to: t2m_content@verkehrshaus.ch. Submitters will be notified by the programme committee during the first week of May 2009 on the success or status of their submission. The full paper of all accepted submissions and of the posters must be delivered on or before August 15th, 2009. These papers will be copied onto a conference CD-ROM for distribution in advance to all conference participants. Individual presentations at the conference are therefore to be limited to a fifteen-minute summary to allow for debate and discussion within the session. All participants are required to register. Programme Committee: 09/05/2009 8th-10th July 2009 http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/research/symposia/2009/index.php?PageId=750 Invited guest speakers: At a time of increasing mobility, ease of travel and the emergence of new destinations, tourism is both a victim of, and contributor to climate change. However, this symbiotic relationship remains shrouded in fuzzy data, myths and mystery. Given that the industry servicing ‘people on the move’ is central to most economies and cultures, the option to ‘give up’ tourism is simply not tenable. Responsive actions must be identified to enable travel and tourism to deliver the peak experiences that tourists seek, but with a lower carbon footprint. Industry perspectives, full papers, presentations, work in progress, and posters are invited under the following themes: 2. Innovative approaches in adaptation and mitigation processes and protocols 3. Reducing ‘Hotspot’ Vulnerability (i.e. destinations affected by and /or dependent on tourism) 4. Emerging generating and receiving countries 5. The controversial nature of Media and Marketing 6. Supply Chain contributors (i.e. tour operators, airlines and other means of transport, accommodation, attractions, tourism corporations and local producers) 7. Educational providers (i.e capacity building and knowledge management) 8. The role of Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) 9. The role of NGOs 10. The climate change challenge for developing countries/majority world We are particularly interested in strategic approaches to bridging the gaps between climate change and poverty alleviation (i.e. is it possible to capture the inevitable changes in the shape of tourism over the coming decades to the benefit of the developing/ majority world?) For more information contact: tourism-climatechange@brighton.ac.uk 7/05/2009 Extended deadline: 8 of May, 2009 The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Conference on Development and Information Technologies. Mobile Phones and Internet in Latin America and Africa: The Conference, organized by the UOC and cofinanced by the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament, will take place on 23 and 24 October at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) located in Castelldefels, Barcelona. It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange the results of empirical research and to debate the influence that the spread of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), specifically mobile phones and Internet, can have on social and economic development in Latin America and Africa, and among the most vulnerable segments of the population in particular. We are pleased to announce to researchers, PhD students and practitioners the call for research papers on the following topics: 1. Migrations, interconnection and interdependence If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send the abstract before the 8 of May, If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee: jornadesitd.in3@uoc.edu Information about all the practical aspects and the contents are available on the Conference website: http://www.uoc.edu/activitats/jornadaitd/eng/index.html Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol | Scientific Committee | mfernandezar@uoc.edu INSTRUCTIONS All the documents must be sent to the following email address: jornadesitd.in3@uoc.edu 1. Migrations, interconnection and interdependence Please, send the abstract before the 8 of May, 2009 , indicating JDTIC-BCN: submissions in the subject line. 5/05/2009 Colloque du Département de Géographie de Sousse | 28-29-30 Janvier 2010 Entre la vision braudelienne d’une Méditerranée « personnage complexe, encombrant, hors série, (qui) échappe à nos mesures et à nos catégories.. » et l’idée d’une Méditerranée, qui selon Edgar Morin « n’existe que dans nos subjectivités » la géographie est invitée enfin à se prononcer. Car, à part l’étiquette climatique qui a été fortement mise en avant, la géographie classique, exception faite des écrits d’Elisée Reclus, a préféré ignorer la Méditerrané, au pire l’oublier. La reconstruction théorique et thématique de la géographie depuis une trentaine d’années, quant à elle, ne s’est penchée que très peu sur l’objet « Méditerranée» même si par endroits quelques sérieuses réflexions auguraient d’un regain d’intérêt. A l’évidence, la Méditerranée en tant que concept spatial plausible à été victime de deux préjugés : la géographie classique (française) et sur fond d’un préjugé culturel discutable, n’a jamais vu dans la Méditerranée qu’une mer faite par et pour l’Europe. La récupération de l’expression « mare nostrum » non comme forme d’appropriation mais comme épithète triviale exprime très bien cette forte tendance à l’occultation dont la Méditerranée a longtemps fait l’objet. Deuxièmement, la tendance, lourde chez une partie de la nouvelle littérature géographique à ne voir dans les espaces que leur dimension géopolitique a été à l’origine de l’expression «une Méditerranée, mur mitoyen », oxymoron qui en finit prématurément avec toute réflexion théorique possible. Ces deux préjugés se prolongent dans la production géographique d’aujourd’hui dans l’usage qu’on fait habituellement de la catégorie d’analyse « Nord/Sud » où, dans le cas de son application sur la Méditerranée, la primauté est donnée aux relations de confrontations et aux formes conflictuelles. Pourtant, cette catégorie prise dans son acception large, signifie aussi l’ensemble des rapports de médiation qui produisent de nouveaux acteurs et de nouveaux lieux avec une relecture totale des distances (économiques, culturelles, sociales…) et des logiques d’espacement. Dans la perspective qui est la nôtre, la pertinence de la « Méditerranée» en tant qu’objet de réflexion et de recherche réside dans le fait qu’il constitue un espace d’action d’une grande originalité où les aspects d’une mondialisation « immanente » et multiforme (le foyer touristique le plus important, délocalisations des industries et des services) cohabitaient avec celle d’un autre « désir du monde » qui se fait d’une façon beaucoup plus périlleuse à travers des migrations clandestines dont le volume des flux s’intensifie de plus en plus. Les actions se déclinent aussi dans des expériences de développement et d’aménagement qui ont produit et façonné des types d’espaces « penchés » sur la Méditerranée. La littoralisation, modèle spatial récurrent sur les deux rives témoigne de la place qu’occupe la façade maritime dans l’organisation et le fonctionnement des espaces urbains méditerranéens et leur évolution vers la métropolisation. Espace d’action(s), la Méditerranée est aussi un espace en action dont la dimension spatiale se forge et se reproduit selon quelques déterminants puissants. D’abord quelques tropismes forts où se conjuguent des écosystèmes fragiles, un différentiel de développement Nord/Sud qui ne cesse de se creuser et de s’amplifier, des configurations/combinaisons géopolitiques pesantes et fortement indurées. Ensuite quelques inflexions qui, sans être définitives, méritent qu’on s’y attarde : depuis une vingtaine d’années la Méditerranée est devenue, chez une partie des élites politiques et économiques, un espace de projet(s) indispensable. Du processus de Barcelone (1995) et ses visées géo-économiques à l’Union pour la Méditerranée (2008) en passant par les programmes sectoriels de préservation du patrimoine naturel méditerranéen, de développement et d’aménagement urbain, la Méditerranée, comme catégorie géographique, apparaît comme un possible espace de projet et/ou de projets. Ainsi, l’objectif de ce colloque est de mettre en évidence, à partir de ces deux constats d’action et de projet, et selon des échelles et des temporalités multiples, les processus d’interaction et d’interactivité faisant de la Méditerranée un espace d’action et de probable construction et ce autour des quatre thèmes suivants sur lesquels nous invitons les spécialistes de l’analyse des dimensions spatiales des sociétés à réfléchir : Appel à Communications 2/05/2009 10-14 November 2009, in Sochi, Russia, and the deadline to submit your abstracts is 20th of April, 2009. You can find out the Call for Abstracts at the following address: http://www.medcoast.org.tr/MC09/Call_for_Papers_MEDCOAST%2009.pdf Ms. Burcu Cetin | Program Officer Mediterranean Coastal Foundation | (MEDCOAST Foundation) | Volkan Sokak, No 52 (Beyaz Ev), Akyaka 48650, Mugla, Turkey | Tel: +90 252 2435500 | Fax: + 90 252 2434495 MEDCOAST Secretariat, c/o Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey | Tel: +90 312 210 54 29 | Fax: +90 312 210 79 87 |
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