Mobilities Network for Aotearoa New Zealand
10th Mobilities Research Symposium
Mobile Properties: Migration, Travel, Performance, Work and New Technologies
1-3 December 2019, Queenstown Resort College, Queenstown
Conference convenors: Martha Bell, PhD, Independent Sociologist, Dunedin Aotearoa New Zealand; Mitra Etemaddar, PhD, School of Applied Business, Unitec, Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand
Keynote Presentations
International Keynote Speaker (Flying): Professor Anthony Elliott, University of South Australia, Australia. “Mobilities 3.0 and AI”. 1 December
International Keynote Speaker (Non-Flying): Professor Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium. “Momentous Mobilities: The Paradoxical Quest for a Sense of (Temporary) Belonging”. 2 December.
'Performance of the Real' Keynote Speaker (Flying): Associate Professor David Bissell, University of Melbourne, Australia."Anaesthetic Mobilities". 3 December.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The programme for a sociology of mobility ‘for the 21st century’ set out to understand social change in an era of greater population movements through travel and migration for work, leisure and responses to political, economic and climate ‘catastrophes’ (Urry, 2000a; 2000b; 2007; 2011). Almost twenty years since this programme was advanced, we invite a closer look at the interrelated properties and performances connecting migration, travel, work and technologies for a better understanding of social change in societies.
Properties comprise essences, components, capitals, assets, territories, investments or rights. By definition, properties carry and generate value. They provide a material base to structures built by continuous encounters and exchanges activating the production and distribution of further properties. A sociology of mobility must constantly re-analyse structures and properties being built, performed and anticipated with mobile practices and mobile lives (Elliott & Urry, 2010). In light of the web 4.0 platforms, we must examine where mobile properties are ‘working’ (Elliott, 2019) and how to recognise them in 2019
Property values, for example, are dominated by ownership and exchange: of land, landscapes or landings as gateways to new mobile sites of appropriation. We would ask what are the logistics and infrastructures giving access to such properties and their materialities? What are the intellectual properties at work in mobile economies? Questions such as these begin to frame sets of interests producing and distributing mobile property values to which to apply renewed sociological analysis.
We would also like to explore the brokerage work of ‘new mobilities’ themselves as properties of capital investment, accumulation and distribution (Kalantzis-Cope & Gherab-Martin, 2010). Mobile software, for example, entails digital exchange in the sharing economy, photographic apps publicising scenic locations, GoPro and drone-based ‘aerial imagery services,’ tracking technologies and telework robotics. Automated e-vehicles enter into new spaces to become systems properties. Who (or what) are the mobility brokers utilising these properties? Whose mobile ‘imaginaries’ are mobility brokers contributing to (Salazar, 2014a; 2014b)? Whose mobile property is brokered through ‘the work and play of the mind’ (Kalantzis-Cope, 2018)? What are the ‘brokerage assemblages’ that can be identified and described (Robertson & Rogers, 2017)? Through this 2-and-a-half-day symposium, we will look more closely at the intersections of property with identity, citizenship, space, time, territories, borders, bodies and power. Topics to consider
physical property rights, colonisation and social justice
intellectual property rights, indigenous knowledges, social justice
migration, entrepreneurship and global business
refugee migrations, humanitarian migrations, ‘sustainable’ migrations
climate change, land claims and mobility justice
elites, tourism destinations and property investment
piracy, property, ownership and theft
logistics, supply chains and freight mobilities
urban streets and properties of urban design
cosmopolitanism and properties of neighbourhood
infrastructures of work, commuting and housing in excessive property markets
outsourcing beds, cars and VR tour guides in lifestyle locations
social class, seasonal labour and the adventure industry
adventure capital/adventure technologies: gateways to ‘new mobilities’ experiences
dot watchers: digital adventure sport, YouTube sport promotion and the ‘new mobilities’ media
the broker as a ‘key figure’ of mobility: labour brokers, property brokers, debt brokers, infrastructure brokers, education brokers, data brokers
how mobilities are performed
affective qualities and mobilities
Paper abstracts (150-200 words), 3-5 Keywords, Bio (50 words) and personal contact information are due by 5pm, 30 August 2019 via email with "10th Mobilities Symposium abstract" in the subject line to the convenors at mobilitiesnetworkanz@gmail.com
References
Arvanitakis, James & Fredriksson, Martin (Eds.) (2017). Property, Place and Piracy. Abingdon: Routledge.
Elliott, Anthony (2019). The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution.Abingdon: Routledge.
Elliott, Anthony & Urry, John (2010). Mobile Lives. Hoboken: Routledge.
Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip (2018). The Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age: Whose Property? Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip & Gherab-Martin, Karim (Eds.) (2010). Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Robertson, Shanthi & Rogers, Dallas (2017). Education, real estate, immigration: brokerage assemblages and Asian mobilities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(14), 2393-2407.
Salazar, Noel B. (2017). Key figures of mobility: an introduction. Social Anthropology, 25(1), 5-12.
Salazar, Noel B. & Glick Schiller, Nina (Eds.). (2014a). Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power. London: Routledge.
Salazar, Noel B. & Graburn, Nelson H. H. (Eds.). (2014b). Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches. Oxford: Berghahn.
Urry, John (2011). Climate Change and Society. Cambridge: Polity.
Urry, John (2007). Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity.
Urry, John (2000a). Mobile Sociology. British Journal of Sociology, 51(1), 185-203.
Urry, John (2000b). Sociology beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge.
Details at a glance
Abstracts - due 30 August 2019
Registration - due 4 October 2019
Draft Programme - sent out 6 October 2019
Schedule - 12pm Sunday 1 December to 12pm Tuesday 3 December
Public Event - Anthony Elliott is also giving an invited talk ~ open to all
Venue - Sunday: Hilton Queenstown, Coronet II Meeting Room; Monday-Tuesday: Queenstown Resort College, Meeting Room
Start times - 1pm Sunday; 8.30am Monday; 8.30am Tuesday
Meals - Sunday Welcome Lunch provided from 12 noon. Monday-Tuesday will be self-catering at QRC café. We hope to have dinner together both evenings.
Accommodation - We recommend the Hilton Queenstown (03-4509443;kathleen.oei@hilton.com ) and the Garden Court Suites and Apartments http://www.gardencourt.co.nz (0800-427336; stay@gardencourt.co.nz) which is within walking distance of Queenstown Resort College. Options include one or two-bedroom apartments (up to 5 people) "with courtyard" or "with balcony." Studio suites also available. Request the corporate rate.
Volunteers - We are seeking 3 postgraduate volunteers to help with the event in exchange for a reduced registration fee
For expressions of interest and further information on any aspect of the symposium, email the convenors at: mobilitiesnetworkanz@gmail.com
Registration
Registration fees cover Sunday's light lunch and afternoon catering, venue and IT costs, and a portion of hosting expenses for our International (Flying) Keynote Speaker. The scale for fees is as follows:
250.00 Full-time academic researchers
200.00 Contract/Part-time researchers
150.00 Postgraduate students
120.00/60.00 One-day/Half-day registration
(ex GST)
Registration fees are due by 5pm. 4 October 2019. Information about making a payment will be provided at the time. Non-presenters are welcome to contact us to attend without submitting an abstract. For queries about registration, please email the convenors at
mobilitiesnetworkanz@gmail.com
