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Piketty and mobilities

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Piketty’s work may open a new perspective to study the relationship between mobility and inequality, one that is more attentive to the diversity of time scales and rhythms in the creation and reproduction of wealth and the distribution of income.

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Celebrating the Art of the London Underground

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

The forms in which we collectively imagine social life are often reflected in, and in turn inform graphic material used for propaganda and marketing purposes. A retrospective exhibition of posters on the London Underground offered an opportunity to reflect on the shifting ways in which the changing nature of London and its transport have been conceived of.

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Detroit : Ruin of a City

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Blending historical footage with conversations on the move with residents, artists and social scientists, the documentary reflects on race, inequality, urbanism, mobility, the past and the future. Is Detroit a taste of things to come?

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Quotidian rituals in an age of mobility

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

It is often quotidian details that best reveal the vital pulse of the times, the sensuous, emotional and moral textures of everyday lives at a certain historical time. This entry of Café Braudel brings to readers' attention three quotes about the way in which an accelerating rhythm of life associated with the new culture of mobility gained expression in quotidian rituals such as smoking and drinking.

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Capitalism and collective action in the work of John Urry (II)

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

This is the second of a two-entry series of Café Braudel on capitalism and collective action in the work of John Urry, one of the scholars who has advocated most forcefully a ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences. In the previous entry I introduced one of Urry’s seminal books, The End of Organized Capitalism (1987), and noted an enduring concern with collective action in his work and, more specifically, in his mobile sociology. This entry introduces Economies of Signs and Space, another…

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Capitalism and collective action in the work of John Urry (I)

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

British sociologist John Urry is recognized as one of the most authoritative voices arguing for a ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences. Books such as Sociology Beyond Societies (2000), Mobilities (2007) and Mobile Lives (2010) are regarded as milestones in the development of the mobilities turn and widely cited in many fields. However, important aspects of his work on mobilities were prefigured earlier in discussions about collective action and the restructuring of capitalism. This and the…

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Mobile Urbanisms

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Annual Conference of the Urban Geography Research Group (Institute of British Geographers) 29-30 November 2012, Kings College London.

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Braudel, a mobilities scholar avant la lettre?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Braudel has been cited but rarely used in mobilities literature, yet his work places movement at the heart of social, economic and political life.

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Christoph fink : objective information and subjective experience

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“Touch time, touch space, touch experience…and we find ourselves surprised by the indescribable, the untouchable. A brief and intense moment of awareness.”

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MARTIN PARR - a photographic testimonial on the automobile

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“When I first bought the car I couldn’t wait to catch a reflection of myself in a shop window. It’s terribly embarrassing to admit but I really enjoyed seeing myself in the car”.

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JEAN-PIERRE MARTIN – L’EXCITATION FERROVIAIRE

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

Born in 1948, French writer Jean-Pierre Martin became a professor of contemporary literature at the University of Lyon 2, after literature studies that culminated in a thesis on Henri Michaux. Meanwhile, as he himself confides, he lived several lives, first as a student, then a left-wing proletarian and labor activist. Travel and jazz have also played an important role throughout the years. His extensive bibliography continues to grow at a steady pace. His most recent work, L'autre vie d'Orwell…

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

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Jeremy Deller: The Reenchantment Of Public Transportation

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“It's like some psychological warfare on the customer.” In response to an invitation from London transportation officials, artist Jeremy Deller chose to insert somewhat provocative philosophical messages in ads aimed at commuters. For instance, we hear a female driver citing Gandhi, or Sartre’s famous quote “Hell is other people,” shedding a philosophical light on issues such as promiscuity, which concern passengers directly.

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