Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies - University of Vienna

01/07/2024

🥳 Congratulations to our team of researchers! 🥳

On June 27, 2024, as the final public event of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies and of the FWF DOC.funds program "Cultural Mobility Studies," we presented our newly published edited volume: "Entangled Future Im/mobilities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies." Thanks to all who attended!

📚 You can download the book online here: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7380-7

👀 About the publication
How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco, and Austrian financial literacy policy.

27/06/2024

🥳TODAY🥳

We are very excited to present our new edited volume:
"ENTANGLED FUTURE IM/MOBILITIES: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies"

Meet us at 6pm at the Hofburg at the University of Vienna, or register to attend online.

The editors will present the book, discuss the publishing process with transcript, and answer questions. Short introductions to some of the chapters will illustrate the wide interdisciplinary range of topics on mobility studies in the humanities and social sciences featured in the book.

All details for the event here: https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/events-news/detailansicht/news/book-presentation-entangled-future-immobilities/

The volume is published open-access online here: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7380-7/entangled-future-im/mobilities/

20/06/2024

1️⃣ more week! Our mobility scholars present their new book at the final public event of the Platform.

Learn about Afrofuturist poetry, the resurrection of the thylacine, climate adaptation in Morocco, and more--all through an entangled future im/mobilities lens.

All details & online registration: https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/events-news/detailansicht/news/book-presentation-entangled-future-immobilities/

30/04/2024

✨📖NEW BOOK📚✨
We are very excited to announce the publishing of our edited volume!

➡️ Entangled Future Im/mobilities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies ⬅️

Congratulations to our Platform PhDs and key researchers for their hard work over the last few years! Please 🗓 SAVE THE DATE 🗓 for our book launch on Thursday, June 27, at 6pm at the Hofburg's Schreyvogelsaal. More information to follow.

Book Summary:
How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

Download or order the book here from [transcript]: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7380-7/entangled-future-im/mobilities/

09/01/2024

🎥 Missed our last Lecture in December? No problem! Watch the presentation by Lore Van Praag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbsZ0nKEPo

🌍 Lore Van Praag's fieldwork in Tangier and Tinghir in Morocco revealed fascinating relationships between environmental change and mobility. She links how these mobility patterns are related to transnational ties many people have with European countries, as well as climate adaptation practices, gender dynamics, and religious and spiritual interpretations. Read the full description of the lecture: https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/events-news/detailansicht/news/migration-and-environmental-change-in-morocco-findings-new-developments-and-challenges/

📚 Check out her book "Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes" (open access): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61390-7

The lecture took place on December 13, 2023, at the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at the University of Vienna.Migration and Environmental C...

12/12/2023

✨Tonight is the lecture!✨

"Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco" with Lore Van Praag at 6pm Vienna time

Join us in-person or online:
https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/events-news/detailansicht/news/migration-and-environmental-change-in-morocco-findings-new-developments-and-challenges/

Combining insights from migration and climate adaptation studies, in this session of the Mobility lectures, Lore Van Praag will start by discussing her fieldwork on environmental mobility in Tangier and Tinghir in Morocco and how these mobility patterns are related to transnational ties many people have with European countries, such as Belgium. During this fieldwork, gender dynamics, religious and spiritual interpretations, lifestyle expectations, intergenerational and intragenerational differences in (environmental) mobility patterns and aspirations were noted. She will discuss how these empirical findings contributed to gaining new insights for the field of environmental mobility, as well as how it adds to existing theoretical frameworks. Finally, these empirical findings will be used as a starting point to discuss the upcoming challenges when conducting fieldwork on environmental mobilities in the Moroccan context and how these insights can be applied to other contexts. In doing so, we aim to reflect upon future pathways to advance in this field of research and to apply to current policymaking.

Mobility Lecture #16 with Lore Van Praag, Erasmus University Rotterdam

05/12/2023

Our next Mobility Lecture is one week from today!

🇲🇦 Environmental Mobilities in Morocco
🗣️ Lore Van Praag, Erasmus University Rotterdam
🗓️ 6pm on Tuesday, December 12
📍 online & in-person at the Hofburg

More info ⬇️
https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/events-news/detailansicht/news/migration-and-environmental-change-in-morocco-findings-new-developments-and-challenges/

14/11/2023

We are now up to our 16th Mobility lecture, learning from Mobility Studies scholars from around the world! 🌍

✨ Next month, we welcome Lore Van Praag to share her research findings on "Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco." ✨

➡️ Tuesday, December 12, at 6pm UTC+1
➡️ hybrid: in-person at the Hofburg in Vienna or online via Zoom
➡️ https://shorturl.at/bego8

Combining insights from migration and climate adaptation studies, Lore Van Praag will start by discussing her fieldwork on environmental mobility in Tangier and Tinghir in Morocco and how these mobility patterns are related to transnational ties many people have with European countries, such as Belgium. During this fieldwork, gender dynamics, religious and spiritual interpretations, lifestyle expectations, intergenerational and intragenerational differences in (environmental) mobility patterns and aspirations were noted. She will discuss how these empirical findings contributed to gaining new insights for the field of environmental mobility, as well as how it adds to existing theoretical frameworks. Finally, these empirical findings will be used as a starting point to discuss the upcoming challenges when conducting fieldwork on environmental mobilities in the Moroccan context and how these insights can be applied to other contexts. In doing so, we aim to reflect upon future pathways to advance in this field of research and to apply to current policymaking.

09/10/2023

👏Congrats to all our presenters & panelists! 👏

We had a great second day of final Symposium. We heard from our PhDs on their progress over the past four years at the Research Platform. Key researchers, current PhDs, and past PhDs reflected together about what they learned during their work at the Platform and what they see for the future of Mobility Studies

Thanks to the attendees and the organizers!

Interested in learning more? You can always check out our past events and research: https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/