[sustran] Reminder - CFP Mobility, the City and STS workshop

[Sebastian Ureta]

* apologies for cross posting *

 

Reminder – Call for papers

 

"Mobility, the City and STS" workshop

 

Technical University Denmark, Copenhagen

November 20-22, 2008

 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together social scientists and other
researchers to present and discuss empirical or theoretical work about the
relationships between mobility and society from one particular perspective:
Science and Technology Studies (STS). In the last two decades STS has grown
from being a discipline mainly focused on scientific practice and places to
develop a general interest in the interconnections between science,
technology and society in an increasing number of highly diverse places.
Especially through the development of constructivist and Actor-Network
approaches, STS offers a very sophisticated array of theoretical concepts
and methodological tools to study contemporary societies. In this workshop
the general idea is to present work that apply these concepts and tools to
the analysis of the role of mobility in contemporary societies through the
presentation of specific case-studies. 

 

In order to keep the invitation as open as possible, we welcome submissions
of paper proposals from a wide variety of perspectives in relation with the
connections between mobility and STS:

 

·         Different kinds: from private to public, from transport of people
to mobility of information and materials.

·         Different scales: from individual mobilities to large
socio-technical transport systems.

·         Different actors: from technologies (buses, cars, mobile phones)
and mobility infrastructures (bus stops, travel information, information
networks, etc.) to users and quotidian practices.

·         Different locations: from developed to developing countries, from
megacities to small towns.

 

The papers presented are planned to be compiled, edited and published as a
book or a special issue of a relevant, peer-reviewed, journal.

 

Extended deadline for abstracts September 15th 2008.

 

For further information on the workshop see the attached CFP.  

 

Best wishes,

 

Sebastián Ureta Icaza

Instituto de Sociología

Universidad Católica de Chile

Teléfono: 56-2-6864213

E-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:sureta at uc.cl"sureta at uc.cl 

 


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