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View article: AlterNative Archipelagos and the 1952 Caribbean Festival: Musical Mobilities Escaping ALCOA’s Extractive Tourism
AlterNative Archipelagos and the 1952 Caribbean Festival: Musical Mobilities Escaping ALCOA’s Extractive Tourism Open
Caribbean cultural tourism is deeply entwined with American empire and its transoceanic mobilities, yet transnational Caribbean cultural production constantly exceeds and escapes such limiting constructs. In this article, we combine the in…
View article: Mobility data justice
Mobility data justice Open
Mobility experiences are becoming intrinsically linked with digital and data experiences. Being mobile increasingly involves the production, storage, processing and sharing of data (consciously or not), from car sensor data for diagnostics…
View article: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World , by Malcom Ferdinand
Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World , by Malcom Ferdinand Open
Beginning from the Caribbean as the eye of the storm of the contemporary ecological crisis, political philosopher Malcom Ferdinand implores us to envision our response to modernity's tempest from the hold of the slave ship and the legacies…
View article: Mobile Commoning: Reclaiming Indigenous, Caribbean, Maroon, and Migrant Commons
Mobile Commoning: Reclaiming Indigenous, Caribbean, Maroon, and Migrant Commons Open
Over the last two decades, the concept of ‘the commons’ has been rediscovered as a powerful organizing principle in social movements, radical political thought, and critical theory. The concept of commoning has also been adopted within dis…
View article: Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate
Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate Open
The discussion on the relation between human mobility and climate change has moved beyond linear and exceptional terms. Building on these debates, this article, and the Special Issue on Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobi…
View article: The End of Flying: Coronavirus Confinement, Academic (Im)mobilities and Me
The End of Flying: Coronavirus Confinement, Academic (Im)mobilities and Me Open
This chapter focuses on how the coronavirus pandemic disrupted ‘normal’ academic life and travel through an analysis of my own travel history over the past decade. After contextualising the ways in which quarantines and confinement radical…
View article: Mobility Justice and the Return of Tourism after the Pandemic
Mobility Justice and the Return of Tourism after the Pandemic Open
The collapse of travel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic-related closure of borders has severely disrupted tourism around the world at a time of already existing concerns over climate change, over-tourism, pollution, and the general s…
View article: Pandemic (Im)mobilities
Pandemic (Im)mobilities Open
As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drastic...
View article: Mobility justice
Mobility justice Open
The concept of mobility justice took shape through linking the problem of sustainability transitions in transportation and urban infrastructure with the wider problems of social justice, global inequalities and the politics of mobility. Th…
View article: Ten Years of Transfers
Ten Years of Transfers Open
In a brief reflection on the multiple disruptions of mobilities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this article shows the significance of the scholarship published in Transfers over the last ten years for thinking about the future. Clearly …
View article: Consumer Drones as Mobile Media
Consumer Drones as Mobile Media Open
For an increasing number of civilian "pilots," consumer drones are an empowering means of obtaining and communicating insightful views from above. For an increasing number of skeptics, the buzzing flying machines symbolize a threat to loca…
View article: Theorising mobility justice
Theorising mobility justice Open
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day, when the entire world faces the urgent question of how to make the transition to more environmentally sustainable and socially just mobilities. All around the …
View article: Editorial
Editorial Open
The name of our journal, Transfers, suggests a wide and even proliferating number of ways of thinking about movement and researching mobilities. What is transferred, how, and between whom? As things “cross over,” how are they changed? And …
View article: Theorizing Mobility Transitions
Theorizing Mobility Transitions Open
Despite a surge of multidisciplinary interest in transition studies on low-carbon mobilities, there has been little evaluation of the current state of the field, and the contributions of different approaches such as the multi-level perspec…
View article: Race and the Politics of Mobility—Introduction
Race and the Politics of Mobility—Introduction Open
Race matters. “Too often scholars discuss mobility in the abstract, assuming or omitting the highly consequential matter of the identity of those who move and its effects on how they move.” This special issue on Mobility and Race has invit…
View article: On the Maintenance of Humanity: Learning from Refugee Mobile Practices
On the Maintenance of Humanity: Learning from Refugee Mobile Practices Open
This CARGC Paper drew on Sheller’s Distinguished Lecture and presented a project in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and French curator Guillaume Logé. For many refugees, smartphones have become their most valuable asset. While …