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Applied Mobilities

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Sharing mobilities : new perspectives for societieson the move?

To cite this article: (2016) Sharing mobilities : new perspectives for societies on the move?,Applied Mobilities, 1:1, 137-138, DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2016.1150578

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APPLIED MOBILITIES, 2016

VOL. 1, NO. 1, 137–138

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2016.1150578

Sharing mobilities : new perspectives for societies on the

move?12th Cosmobilities Network Conference, November 30th – December 2nd 2016, Stuttgart/Bad

Boll

 The mobility world is massively changing. New policies, new modes of transport and new

social practices of mobilities are on the rise. The future of modern societies will no longerbe solely organized through individual property and ownership. Rather, new collaborative

forms of consumption and sharing will play a key role in the organization of everyday life

and business.

A new culture of sharing and participation is arising. People share cars, bikes, houses,

expertise and mastery in science and craftsmen’s work etc. Once radical visions have become

part of the lingering but steady transformation of norms, procedures, routines and capitalist

principles. A burgeoning political awareness can be witnessed in cities, regions, in mobilities

research, in planning, politics, business and civil society. And even global car producers

become part of the new sharing culture. They seriously consider themselves selling mobility

instead of cars within the next two decades.

For the Cosmobilities Network, the biggest European mobility research network, it is about

time for a critical scientific investigation of the new sociocultural practices of mobilities.

 Therefore, the 12th Cosmobilities Conference asks:

• What are the social, ecological, cultural and aesthetic dimensions that generate this

resonance of ‘sharing mobilities’?

• Are we observing the birth of a culture of multi-mobility, of changing (auto)motive

emotions and sustainable mobilities?

• What are the socio-political implications of a new mobility culture?• Is the hype on new mobilities just an expression of the pursuit of big business, the next

phase of capitalist development?

• Are new mobilities arising as ‘common good’? Or as a social and cultural resource in a

cosmopolitan world full of social, ecological, economic and cultural risks?

• What does ‘sharing mobilities’ mean against the background of global migration and

touristic flows?

 The 12th  Cosmobilities Network conference invites contributions. Papers elaborating

aspects of related risks, chances, utopias and dystopias are especially welcomed.

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138 APPLIED MOBILITIES

Invited as keynotes are: Bridgette Wessels (University of Sheffield), Tim Cresswell

(Northeastern University), Philipp Rode (London School of Economics), Jörg Beckmann

(Mobility Academy Bern, CH)

Deadline for abstracts is: May 1st, 2016.

For further details visit: www.cosmobilities.net