Mobility and the Environment
Workshop
03.06.2010 – 05.06.2010
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Convenors: Gijs Mom (RCC), Clapperton Mavhunga (MIT), Uwe Lübken (RCC)
The workshop, “Mobility and the Environment,” gathered specialists (historians and social scientists) from several different disciplines (transport history, tourism history, anthropology, science, and technology studies) to discuss the framework of an emerging field–Environmental Mobility Studies. The workshop featured the presentation of individual papers; each paper was commented upon by two other participants. This edition also became the first volume in a new series entitled New Mobility Studies. The workshop was the first in a series of two; the second one was set to take place at MIT in Boston in fall 2010.
Program (pdf, 357 kb)
Report (pdf, 138 kb)
Uwe Lübken presenting his research on biomobility
Participants listening attentively to the discussion
Clapperton Mavhunga describing human attitudes toward animals as
"organic vehicles" in south-eastern Africa
Gijs Mom, Frank Uekötter and Barbara Schmucki