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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities, London, 2010
Del 05/01/2010 al 06/02/2010; Londres (Reino Unido).
Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities, London, 2010
Posted by: Kathy Burrell
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual
Conference, London 2010
Call for Papers
Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities
Sponsored by the Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group
Convenors: Kathy Burrell (De Montfort University) and Kathrin
Hörschelmann (University of Durham)
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in 'mobilities' (Urry,
2000) - that is the physical travel of people, the movement of
objects, imaginative travel, virtual travel and communicative travel -
arising from the assertion that for too long social scientists have
focused on peoples' experiences in static situations (home, work)
while neglecting the fact that movement and travel are just as
significant to people's lives. Whether this constitutes a new
'mobilities paradigm' or not, it is undeniable that this focus on
mobilities has spawned a wave of fascinating research projects which
have placed human mobility at the heart of geographical, social,
corporeal and material experiences, from the history of the M1
motorway (Merriman, 2004) to the experience of being a passenger on
public transport (Bissell, 2010), to the journeys of Indian saris
(Norris, 2008). While many of these discussions have invigorated the
discipline of transport geography especially, these debates about
'mobilities' have the potential to provide a very useful analytical
tool for socialist and post-socialist geographies.
The different socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
had a fundamental impact on the mobilities of ordinary people. On the
one hand they worked hard to control the international mobility of
people, attempting to censor images and communcations from non-aligned
countries and making it almost impossible to emigrate or travel
abroad, while at the same time keeping much freer lines of mobility
and communication open within the socialist bloc. These different
regimes also shaped, purposefully or inadvertently, people's everyday
mobilities. Running a household in a shortage economy, for example,
necessitated specific routes to and from work to take in certain shops
and positioned people in slow moving queues for hours on end (Merkel,
1998; Veenis, 1999), effectively rendering them immobile. State
sponsored holiday policies ensured that many families travelled
extensively within their countries, but the presence of troops,
militias and the secret police also had negative impacts upon people's
ability to move freely around their neighbourhoods. For some people
the state of the public transport systems dominated their daily
routines. In addition to all these physical mobilities, imaginative
mobilities were very important to daily life in the socialist bloc
too, not least the presence of the 'Imagined West' (Yurchak, 2006),
brought to people through western goods and popular culture.
Mobilities theories clearly offer a distinctly geographical prism
through which to reassess the spatialities of everyday life in the
socialist bloc.
The relevance of mobility to the post-socialist experience is equally
fundamental. Most obviously, the collapse of socialism heralded a
liberalisation of international mobilities - an upsurge in migration,
new advertising and international business ventures, and an increasing
globalisation of popular culture being the most obvious examples
(Pilkington et al. 2002; Hörschelmann and Schäfer, 2005 & 2007). 1989,
2004 and 2007 are evidently watershed markers for international
migration in the post-socialist world, reinforced by the growth in
budget airlines linking eastern and western Europe (Burrell, 2008).
However, just as the large-scale markers of mobility seemed to be
relaxing, everyday mobilities have not necessarily followed suit. New
experiences of poverty and unemployment have shrunk the spatial
routines of many (Stenning, 2005; Hörschelmann and van Hoven, 2003),
the loss of subsidised travel and holiday trips impacting heavily on
the ability of ordinary people to move around their countries and locales.
This session seeks to investigate the impact of the different
socialist regimes, and their demise, on the experiences of mobility of
ordinary citizens. It asks to what extent mobilities theories can add
to understandings of these regimes and their collapse, offering a new
spatial vantage point from which to consider the everyday experiences
of socialism and post-socialism.
Papers are invited which explore this theme. Possible topics may
include, but are not limited to:
* Internal and international migration during and after socialism
* Internal and international travel, tourism and holidays during and
after socialism
* Public and private transport during and after socialism
* Everyday mobilities in a shortage economy
* Everyday post-socialist mobilities
* Fear, surveillance and mobility
* Imaginative mobilities during and after socialism
* Communicative mobilities during and after socialism
* Mobility, gender and age
* Intersecting scales and global mobilities
Please send all enquires and completed abstracts to Kathy Burrell
(kburrell@dmu.ac.uk) and Kathrin Hörschelmann
(kathrin.horschelmann@durham.ac.uk) by Friday 6th February 2010. When
submitting your abstract please ensure you include the following
information: name; institutional affiliation and contact email; title
of proposed paper; abstract (no more than 250 words) and any technical
requirements.
Posted by: Kathy Burrell
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual
Conference, London 2010
Call for Papers
Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities
Sponsored by the Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group
Convenors: Kathy Burrell (De Montfort University) and Kathrin
Hörschelmann (University of Durham)
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in 'mobilities' (Urry,
2000) - that is the physical travel of people, the movement of
objects, imaginative travel, virtual travel and communicative travel -
arising from the assertion that for too long social scientists have
focused on peoples' experiences in static situations (home, work)
while neglecting the fact that movement and travel are just as
significant to people's lives. Whether this constitutes a new
'mobilities paradigm' or not, it is undeniable that this focus on
mobilities has spawned a wave of fascinating research projects which
have placed human mobility at the heart of geographical, social,
corporeal and material experiences, from the history of the M1
motorway (Merriman, 2004) to the experience of being a passenger on
public transport (Bissell, 2010), to the journeys of Indian saris
(Norris, 2008). While many of these discussions have invigorated the
discipline of transport geography especially, these debates about
'mobilities' have the potential to provide a very useful analytical
tool for socialist and post-socialist geographies.
The different socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
had a fundamental impact on the mobilities of ordinary people. On the
one hand they worked hard to control the international mobility of
people, attempting to censor images and communcations from non-aligned
countries and making it almost impossible to emigrate or travel
abroad, while at the same time keeping much freer lines of mobility
and communication open within the socialist bloc. These different
regimes also shaped, purposefully or inadvertently, people's everyday
mobilities. Running a household in a shortage economy, for example,
necessitated specific routes to and from work to take in certain shops
and positioned people in slow moving queues for hours on end (Merkel,
1998; Veenis, 1999), effectively rendering them immobile. State
sponsored holiday policies ensured that many families travelled
extensively within their countries, but the presence of troops,
militias and the secret police also had negative impacts upon people's
ability to move freely around their neighbourhoods. For some people
the state of the public transport systems dominated their daily
routines. In addition to all these physical mobilities, imaginative
mobilities were very important to daily life in the socialist bloc
too, not least the presence of the 'Imagined West' (Yurchak, 2006),
brought to people through western goods and popular culture.
Mobilities theories clearly offer a distinctly geographical prism
through which to reassess the spatialities of everyday life in the
socialist bloc.
The relevance of mobility to the post-socialist experience is equally
fundamental. Most obviously, the collapse of socialism heralded a
liberalisation of international mobilities - an upsurge in migration,
new advertising and international business ventures, and an increasing
globalisation of popular culture being the most obvious examples
(Pilkington et al. 2002; Hörschelmann and Schäfer, 2005 & 2007). 1989,
2004 and 2007 are evidently watershed markers for international
migration in the post-socialist world, reinforced by the growth in
budget airlines linking eastern and western Europe (Burrell, 2008).
However, just as the large-scale markers of mobility seemed to be
relaxing, everyday mobilities have not necessarily followed suit. New
experiences of poverty and unemployment have shrunk the spatial
routines of many (Stenning, 2005; Hörschelmann and van Hoven, 2003),
the loss of subsidised travel and holiday trips impacting heavily on
the ability of ordinary people to move around their countries and locales.
This session seeks to investigate the impact of the different
socialist regimes, and their demise, on the experiences of mobility of
ordinary citizens. It asks to what extent mobilities theories can add
to understandings of these regimes and their collapse, offering a new
spatial vantage point from which to consider the everyday experiences
of socialism and post-socialism.
Papers are invited which explore this theme. Possible topics may
include, but are not limited to:
* Internal and international migration during and after socialism
* Internal and international travel, tourism and holidays during and
after socialism
* Public and private transport during and after socialism
* Everyday mobilities in a shortage economy
* Everyday post-socialist mobilities
* Fear, surveillance and mobility
* Imaginative mobilities during and after socialism
* Communicative mobilities during and after socialism
* Mobility, gender and age
* Intersecting scales and global mobilities
Please send all enquires and completed abstracts to Kathy Burrell
(kburrell@dmu.ac.uk) and Kathrin Hörschelmann
(kathrin.horschelmann@durham.ac.uk) by Friday 6th February 2010. When
submitting your abstract please ensure you include the following
information: name; institutional affiliation and contact email; title
of proposed paper; abstract (no more than 250 words) and any technical
requirements.
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