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Dear all,
Please find below a call for abstracts for inclusion in a book proposal to be
put forward in line with our common efforts towards a conflation of mobility
research and discourse analysis.
Feel free to forward to other mailinglists and colleagues.
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Call for Chapters | Book Project:
Discourses and Ideologies of Mobility
Editorial Team
Katharina Manderscheid, Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne,
Switzerland.
Marcel Endres, Graduate Program Topology of Technology, Faculty
of History and Social Sciences, Technische Universität
Darmstadt, Germany.
Christophe Mincke, Centre d'études sociologiques, Facultés
universitaires Saint Louis, Brussels, Belgium.
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In the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of
mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become a legitimate strand of the
social sciences. Yet, as Mimi Sheller and John Urry argue, the ‘new mobilities
paradigm’ should not be “a question of privileging a 'mobile subjectivity’,
but rather of tracking the power of discourses and practices of mobility”
(Sheller and Urry 2006, p.211). Along these lines, scholars suggest that a
‘politics of mobility’ demands development, which would help to uncover the
“social relations that involve the production and distribution of power” and
“the ways in which mobilities are both productive of such social relations and
produced by them” (Cresswell 2010, p.14).
The majority of mobilities scholars’ framings recognises objects within the
dichotomy of mobilities and immobilities, movement and moorings. However,
analyses of the formation of mobilities as an object of knowledge shaped by
social sciences as well as other scientific discourses has not yet been given
sufficient attention. Therefore, this book pursues a strategy of
conceptualising mobilities beyond the dichotomy of movement and stasis. As
Bonham (2006) argues, transport and movement has to be constituted first as
objects of knowledge in order to hierarchise and govern mobilities. It is this
formation of ‘movement-cum-knowledge’ — discourses, ideologies,
classifications, prioritisations and obscurings — which engenders mobilities as
objects of government, power struggles, and truth regimes. This approach moves
beyond the discursive differentiations and sheds light on the constitution and
various discursive strategies deployed to distinguish
between licit and illicit ‘movers’, namely, illegal migrants, high-status
expatriots, gypsies, leisure travellers, creative nomads, and so on (Cresswell
2006; Urry 2007).
Following Michel Foucault, we regard discourses and ideologies on mobility as
systems of thought, which “systematically constitute the objects of which they
speak” (Foucault, 2002, p.54). These systems always contain a normative
dimension by shaping specific ideas and judgements regarding the value and
handling of various mobilities. Therefore, discourses of mobility are
interfused with ideological codings and power hierarchies, which constitute
certain social meanings and areas of knowledge. In a sense, both discourses and
ideologies permanently build connections “from matters of fact to matters of
concern” (Latour 2004, p.225), which are far from “exclusive from science”
(Foucault 2002, p.199) Or, as Peter Adey puts it, “mobilities are underpinned
by specific ideological and discursive meanings, which are not limited to any
boundary between both academic and real social worlds” (Adey 2010, p.14).
Thus, social scientists can simply reproduce and adopt discourses on mobility,
for instance in regards to migration and biopower; social networks and
circulations; or in studies of mobile genders, bodies and ethnicities. Or
social scientists can critically engage with the construction of these
discourses by de- and reconstructing them. The latter highlights that social
sciences are frequently traversed by ideological traits, for instance in the
concept of automobility, in debates on the right to mobility, in ideas of
cosmopolitanism and sustainable mobility, and, not least, in general equations
of mobility with modernity and freedom.
Against this outlined concepts of mobility, the aim of this book is to explore
the unprecedented career of mobility as a discoursive formation in the
humanities and social sciences. Following Michel Foucault, we want to encourage
the historicisation of mobility discourses and their ideological implications
in the sense of a genealogy and epistemology of mobilities. In accordance, the
book´s interest is on mobility as a knowledge object rather than an identified
subject within the historical contingency of movement. How do discourses and
ideologies structure social life and lived reality? What are the real world
affects of/on the will and the ability to be mobile? And, how do these lived
realities, in turn, invigorate or intefere with certain discourses and
ideologies of mobility?
Based on this framework, the book aims to address the problem on three
interrelated levels:
Connotations: We want to explore the ongoing discursive construction,
contestation and changes in regards to the valuation and meaning of movement
and stasis, mobility and moorings especially against the background of social
change and processes of globalisation. Both, mobility and immobility are highly
ambivalent terms differentiating in changing ways between good movers and bad
movers, desired stasis and blocking social fixes, the promise of mobility
(motility), forced movements and so on.
Cross-Disciplinary Connections: We assume that mobility discourses are often
deeply interrelated with knowledge formations in other disciplines, for
instance medicine and anatomy, thermodynamic and experimental physics, kinetics
and engineering, ecology or evolution theory. The transference of ideas in
regards to mobilities from one field of scientific knowledge to another has not
yet gained a lot of attention. This also touches the question of what can be
identified as the very essence of mobilities at a specific historical time and
geographical place.
Science History and Episteme: We also seek to shed light on the uneven picture
of the various historical origins of mobility discourses. In the sense of an
“archaeology of knowledge on mobilities”, we want to stress particular meanings
given to movement in different systems of thoughts and due to epistemological
connections between them.
Chapter Contributions
We are looking forward to contributions which scrutinise the implicitness of
the “mobility turn” as a stringent need as well as the indiscriminate
recognition of a world that seems to be mobilised overly across the board.
Article contributors should signpost approaches along one of the following
lines of argument:
* addressing the impacts of thought schemes and structures on current
social, political and scientific discourses on mobility
* emphasising conversely the role of mobility discourses for
predominant thought patterns in other fields of knowledge
* picking up, refining or drafting alternate theoretical concepts of
mobility and their potentialities for further research
* addressing the relationship between spatial mobility and other
conceptual forms of mobilities (social, cultural, inter-generational, virtual,
of thought, ideas, imaginations)
We intend to prepare the ground for a broad topical range of submissions.
Exemplary topics could be:
* powerful figures and metaphors of mobile subjectivity (e.g. “new
nomadism”, cosmopolitanism, diasporas, home/rootlessness, ubiquity, fluidity).
* materialisations of mobility and their discursive charge (e.g.
vehicles, tracks, areas, cities, objects, institutions, procedures).
* legal, posited and social norms and acceptances of mobility (e.g.
registration practices, legal obligations and rights, public opinion, social
representations, moral regulations).
* infrastructural and institutional constraints and possibilities (e.g.
public and private transport systems, behavioural settings, incentive schemes,
social organisations, social life structures).
* medial constructions of mobility (e.g. print media, literature,
movies, music, arts, news, web content, political discourses).
* history and genealogy of (im)mobility discourses (e.g. history of
movement rights and claims, etymological / encyclopedical origins, conceptual
history of mobility terms).
* scientific concepts and models which hisorically produced certain
connotations and meanings of mobility (e.g. blood circulation, graphical
network models, thermodynamics, epidemology).
* the co-constitution of specific disciplines and profession together
with the formation of specific mobility and transport knowledge (e.g. traffic
engineering).
* the interweaving of security and control as a powerful dispositif of
the present with normalisation and criminalisation of specific mobile subjects
and their practices of movement.
Submission guidelines
Proposals should consist of a preliminary title, an abstract with a maximum of
600 words and a short CV of the author.
Submissions should be sent until March 31st, 2013 to the Editors:
katharina.manderscheid@xxxxxxxx, endres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mincke@xxxxxxxxxx
The deadline for full papers is December 31st, 2013.
Papers should not exceed 8000 words.
The book is planned to be published in mid of 2014.
References
Peter Adey (2010): Mobility. New York: Routledge
Jennifer Bonham (2006): Transport: disciplining the body that travels. In:
Böhm, Steffen; Campbell, Jones; Land, Chris; Paterson, Matthew (Eds.): Against
Automobility. Malden, Oxford: Blackwell: 57-74.
Tim Cresswell (2006): On the move. Mobility in the modern West. New York:
Routledge.
Tim Cresswell (2010): Towards a Politics of Mobility. In: Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 17-31.
Michel Foucault (2002),: The Archeology of Knowledge. Abingdon: Routledge
(Routledge Classics).
Bruno Latour (2004) Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam ? From Matters of Fact to
Matters of Concern, In Critical Inquiry - Special issue on the Future of
Critique, 30, 2, pp.225-248.
Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2006): The new mobilities paradigm, Environment and
Planning A 38 (2), 207 – 226.John Urry (2007): Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity
Press.
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Best wishes,
Marcel Endres
Graduate Program Topology of Technology
Faculty of History and Social Sciences
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Karolinenplatz 5
D - 64289 Darmstadt
++49 (0) 6151 164986
endres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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