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Applied Mobilities

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Material Mobilities

To cite this article: (2016) Material Mobilities, Applied Mobilities, 1:1, 136-136, DOI:10.1080/23800127.2016.1150577

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Applied Mobilities, 2016Vol. 1, No. 1, 136http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2016.1150577

Material MobilitiesNovember 29th-30th, 2016, Aalborg University, Denmark

During the last decade of research affiliated to the ‘new mobilities turn’ the societal reper-cussions of intensive mobilities have been in focus. The ‘turn’ has documented the social, environmental, economic, and cultural effects of the contemporary patterns of movement of people, vehicles, goods, data and information. In parallel with this work new ideas and concepts about the human/non-human and the ‘material dimension’ of the social world has surfaced within a wide array of fields such as philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies. The again ‘turn to the material’ opens up a new set of research questions related to how artefacts and technologies facilitating and affording mobilities are being designed, constructed, and institutionalized. A new material interest furthermore points at new ways of comprehending the political and the power dimensions of mobilities and infrastructural landscapes. The turn to the material furthermore problematizes the modern distinctions between humans and non-humans, subjects and objects, culture and nature.

This conference, organized by the Aalborg University Centre for Urban Studies and Mobility (C-MUS), has this intellectual shift as its focus. It asks how the new development towards the material and an applied perspective may effect insights within the mobilities research communities? The conference sheds light on this emerging research agenda by reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the hosting center and is an open invitation to mobilities scholars across the humanities, the social sciences and the technical sciences. Furthermore, we invite practitioners as for example civil servants and policy and strategy makers as well as we include the arts and the artistic communities from performance arts over architecture and design to media and technology.

As Keynote speakers are invited Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK, Monika Büscher, Lancaster University, UK, and Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, DK.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1st 2016Further information: www.c-mus.aau.dk

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