Forthcoming Autumn 2016!
This special issue brings together 12 contributions on intersections and intersectionalities of mobilities:
Mobility Intersections: Social Research, Social Futures –听Monika B眉scher, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield
Pedestrian circulations: urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work聽– Robin James Smith and Tom Hall
Lifestyle mobility in China: context, perspective and prospects –听Honggang Xu and Yuefang Wu
The wheeling interview: Mobile methods and disability –听Laurence Parent
Disability and Mobilities: Evening Up Social Futures – Gerard Goggin
Comparative mobilities in an unequal world: researching intersections of gender and generation –听Lesley Murray, Kim Sawchuk and Paola Jir贸n
Don鈥檛 Shoot! Black Mobilities in American Gunscapes –听Judith A. Nicholson
Political grammars of mobility, security, and subjectivity聽– Claudia Aradau
Mobilities, Futures and the City.聽Repositioning discourses – changing perspectives – rethinking policies – Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and聽Sven Kesselring
Of 鈥極ther鈥 Materialities: Why (mobilities) design is central to the future of mobilities research –听Ole B. Jensen
Planetary mobilities: movement, memory and emergence in the body of the Earth –听Bronislaw Szerszynski
Doing Methodological Cosmopolitanism in a Mobile World –听David Tyfield and Anders Blok
From the Introduction:
This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how mobilities research has emerged and travelled along with a range of approaches concerned with the lived production of socio-material orders, such as science and technology studies, non-representational and feminist theory, critical and speculative design, and cosmopolitanism, to name but a few, while also intersecting with many applied fields, such as transport planning and policy, disability studies, or disaster response. The field of mobilities research has grown by connecting different epistemological frames, and offering new post-disciplinary approaches to complex interconnected phenomena. In pausing to reflect on these mobility intersections, we suggest that mobilities research is integral to a broader project of transforming the social sciences that is currently underway.
