CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

why study super-rich mobility?

Javier Caletrío, Olivier Mongin

17/12/2013

Shall we study the mobilities of the rich or those of the poor? How to understand the super-rich's virtual and material flows in relationship with those of the rest of the world population? Discussion between a Spanish sociologist and a French philosopher.

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Urban cycling

Dave Horton, David Dansky

26/11/2013

Cycling is moving up the agenda of town and city planners across Europe, given its benefits as a healthy, highly sustainable mode of transport. But how can it best be developed in today’s car-dominated urban environment? FVM talks to two British cycling experts, Dave Horton and David Dansky, about the key issues.

LIVRES

The Railway Journey - by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Javier Caletrío

12/11/2013

This transport studies classic examines the contingent origins of the railway as a symbol of industrial life in Europe, highlighting the co-evolving relationship between the technology and the cultural, economic and spatial contexts in which it was invented and developed.

by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Berg Publishers
1977 / 1986
203 pages

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

CONTROVERSIES

Compactness as a response to environmental issues?

Jacques Lévy, Philippe Estèbe

10/10/2013

“There remains a source of divergence among contributors: the preferred urban model for resolving the problems of congestion and pollution linked to the rise of urban mobilities. The opposition, which one might have thought we had left behind, between supporters of more compact towns and cities … and those who believe in a more diffuse urban environment, continues to flare up.”

LIVRES

Splintering Urbanism - by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin

Javier Caletrío

29/08/2013

Drawing on multiple examples of urban development across the world, Splintering Urbanism examines the role of urban infrastructure in fostering social and spatial inequality and identifies a new planning logic favouring the differential development of city spaces.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

LIVRES

Les sens du mouvement - by S.Allemand, F. Ascher and J. Lévy

Yann Dubois

05/06/2013

“Les sens du mouvement”, the proceedings of a conference held in 2003, edited by Sylvain Allemand, François Ascher and Jacques Lévy, addresses the plurality of movement in general, and as it relates to urban mobilities in particular. As background, the question of the city – compact or diffuse - is discussed, along with its connections to society’s individuation and sustainable development.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Nomadism and neo-nomads

Ferjeux van der Stigghel, Arnaud Le Marchand

22/05/2013

The term ‘nomad’ includes many categories of people who are mobile: the Roma community, lorry drivers, fairground and seasonal workers, etc. However, over the past few decades, a new category has been added to the list: neo-nomads or “travellers”. A photographer and a university professor, both experts in their fields, discuss the situation today.

Thematics : Lifestyles

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

Leaving the Car ?

Elinor Whidden, Jean-Marc Offner

21/03/2013

A Canadian photographer and a French urban planner discuss the future of cars. Given the technical and environmental constraints of car use, they consider the car’s place in our societies, our imaginaries and its impact on our ways of life.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES

On the Move: in the Virtual and the Physical Worlds

Sven Kesselring, Elly Clarke

01/03/2013

A photographer and a sociologist discuss the relationship between real and virtual mobilities, and their increasing impact on our way of life in terms of climate change and the energy crisis.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies

LIVRES

Question of Travel - by Caren Kaplan

Javier Caletrío

11/12/2012

Questions of Travel argues that metaphors of travel in cultural theory fail to grasp the diversity of conditions of movement and displacement in the contemporary world. It examines the ideological role of metaphors and shows the enduring presence of colonial narratives in postmodern critical theory.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

LIVRES

The New Mobilities Paradigm - by Mimi Sheller and John Urry

Javier Caletrío

11/12/2012

This paper describes a new paradigm or way of framing research in the social sciences revolving around the study of the interdependent movements of people, information, images and objects.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

LIVRES

Tracking Modernity. India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility - by Marian Aguiar

Javier Caletrío

11/12/2012

Tracking Modernity examines different forms of representing modernity in India by focusing on the way the railway was imagined by colonial, nationalist and postcolonial writers and visual artists. 

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories