[sustran] Fwd: CfP Mobilities in the Global South @ Mobile Lives Forum

[Paul Barter]

A call for papers. This approach is not my thing. But it may be relevant
for some in sustran-discuss, perhaps?

Paul Barter
www.reinventingparking.org
www.reinventingtransport.org
http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/barter-paul/

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From: Javier Caletrío <javier.caletrio at forumviesmobiles.org>
Date: 10 March 2017 at 00:41
Subject: CfP Mobilities in the Global South @ Mobile Lives Forum
To: sppbpa at nus.edu.sg


Dear  Paul,

I am writing to bring to your attention a call for short papers on
mobilities in the Global South.

Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues who may wish
to participate. It would be great to have submissions from Singapore.

If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact me.

With best wishes,

Javier

-- 
Dr Javier Caletrío
Scientific advisor
Mobile Lives Forum
http://en.forumviesmobiles.org/
javier.caletrio at forumviesmobiles.org
https://javiercaletrio.net/

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Southern Diaries

The Mobile Lives Forum is pleased to announce the creation of a new
thematic section of its website entitled ‘Southern Diaries’ with the aim of
promoting mobilities research in the Global South.

Traditionally research has privileged the realities and problems of
societies in the ‘North’ and the aim of Southern Diaries is to give greater
visibility to lesser known issues and researchers in southern societies.
>From April 2017 this new thematic section will regularly feature research
on a wide range of mobility issues.

Researchers and practitioners working on mobility-related issues in the
Global South are invited to submit short notes (700 words) about any aspect
of their work.

The Mobile Lives Forum’s research focus is on people and their lived
experiences rather than solely the technical aspects of transport
infrastructures. Broadly understood this categorisation gives scope for a
wide range of topics and approaches examining the role of mobility in
social life and its territorial and environmental implications. Submissions
with a specific emphasis on people’s ways of life and aspirations and the
challenges and opportunities of ongoing social and cultural transformations
for sustainable mobility transitions are encouraged. So too are
contributions about case studies and projects with a strong component of
‘public sociology’ (see below).

Selected contributors will be invited to submit full texts (1,500 words)
for publication in the Mobile Lives Forum’s website and regular newsletter
(reaching +10,000 academics and practitioners all over the world).

The deadline for this round of submissions is 31 March.

Please note that the contact address included in previous calls for
participation was incorrect. The correct address is javier.caletrio (at)
forumviesmobiles.org

Further information
About us
The Mobile Lives Forum is a research institute created in 2011 to foster
critical research and debate about mobility futures. In collaboration with
academic and civil society institutions worldwide we bring together
practitioners, artists, scholars and the general public to discuss and
raise awareness about the plurality of ideas of the good life in
contemporary societies and the role of mobility in the pursuit of
individual and collective aspirations. Through this dialogue we seek to
inform policies for sustainable mobility transitions.

The Mobile Lives Forum is a not-for-profit organization based in Paris and
supported by the state-owned SNCF (French railways).

 ‘Global South’
There are multiple, changing and contested conceptual and geographical
understandings of the notion of ‘Global South’. Acknowledging this
plurality of views, the ‘southern perspective’ encouraged by this
initiative loosely refers to contexts, experiences and ways of framing
research that can illuminate other realities ‘beyond the North’, their
particularities but also their connections with other places and
experiences. In adopting this loose definition we would also like to
encourage submissions from peripheral areas in southern and eastern Europe.

Public social sciences
Mobilities research is being produced in multiple places and with different
purposes. Some research is conducted by well-resourced universities,
concerns mostly conceptual matters or high-profile policy issues, and tends
to be disseminated through high ranking British and North American academic
journals or as eye-catching media reports. Behind this world of highly
visible, relatively well funded research, the everyday reality in poor
universities and southern countries is often characterised on the one hand
by intense teaching commitments, and on the other by a vocational
engagement with local communities, neighbourhood associations, labour
movements, environmental associations, and minority groups. While retaining
the academic rigor and methodologies of sociology as a discipline, this
style of doing research seeks to illuminate and address problems through a
dialogue with different sections of the ‘public’. This kind of public
engagement involves varieties of participatory action research and the
development of alternative techniques of collaborative research. Since
Michael Burawoy's 2004 Presidential address to the American Sociological
Association, the term public sociology or public social science is widely
used to describe the effort of these researchers ‘working tirelessly and
invisibly in the trenches of civic society’. Public sociology is practiced
in every society and exists wherever sociologists engage in a dialogue with
a public. It is however in southern countries where it is most active.
Latin America and South Africa, for example, are today epicentres of a
publicly oriented social science.

Submissions will focus on mobility and sustainability, ways of life and
aspirations. Submissions will consist of a short essay that could involve,
for example, the description of projects informed by public sociology or
the presentation of research that questions assumptions cherished by a
particular public, or reorients a public’s focus to issues that are being
overlooked. Ideally the case studies described would enrich discussions of
mobility in the North.

Writing public sociology
Writing public sociology is not just writing in an accessible manner,
avoiding jargon. It involves a familiarity with the lifeworld of a specific
public, taking into consideration the ideas, knowledge, debates, and frames
of reference of that public. It is about using a style and developing a
content that resonates with the audience one wishes to engage with.
Authors are encouraged to accompany the text with audiovisual material
(photos, videos, comic vignettes, sound recordings, etc.) when relevant.

Practical information
Submissions will be acknowledged on receipt and authors will be notified
about the decision.
Submissions should be 700 words. Selected entries will be invited to submit
the full text (1,500 words)
Submissions should be accompanied by a one-page cover letter including a
brief biographical note (up to 100 words) and a brief introduction to the
theme and relevance of the submitted text.

Who can participate: Submissions are encouraged by anyone working on
mobility-related issues in the Global South. Practitioners and scholars
from poorly resourced universities in Europe’s periphery and the Global
South are particularly encouraged to submit their work.

Entries should be sent to javier.caletrio (at) forumviesmobiles.org

Please allow two weeks for receipt of submission acknowledgement.





-- 
Dr Javier Caletrío
Scientific advisor
Mobile Lives Forum
Email: javier.caletrio at forumviesmobiles.org
Personal website: javiercaletrio.net

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