Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

Scientific Programme

Contestations around mobility and infrastructures

Longue durée perspectives on green transitions

Mobility and infrastructures in front of climate emergency

Time, temporalities, transitions

Mobility technologies: technical fix, technological pessimism, shock of the old, and resistances to it

Global and regional approaches, including e.g. post-Soviet or Sub-Saharan perspectives

Global politics and geopolitics of mobility and infrastructures

Mobility transition versus mobility transformations

Imperial, trans-imperial and (post)colonial infrastructures

Metaphors of mobility – highway, railroad, route and network.

Mobility in culture: literary, musical, artistic perspectives

Arts and creativity towards transformation

Activism around mobility and infrastructures

Mobilities on the margins and mobility justice: Race, gender, ethnicity, disability and othering