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9 publications matching keyword "Frontière"

Treasure islands: hidden offshore worlds

01/27/2015 - 10:46
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/video/2015/01/27/treasure-islands-hidden-offshore-worlds-2741

The idealism of a borderless world has been replaced by a picture of dark secrets, crime and unfettered capitalism.

Cross-Border Commuting

04/14/2014 - 09:42
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2014/04/14/cross-border-commuting-2283

Cross-border commuting symbolizes mobility in many ways: from a geographical to a social perspective. The exemple of the Franco-Swiss border.

The significance of friction

11/12/2013 - 10:36
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/video/2013/11/12/significance-friction-1816

Tim Cresswell is a professor of Human Geography at the University of London. His research considers the role of geographical ways of thinking in the constitution of social and cultural life. He reflects on the friction of mobility, a crucial aspect to him.

Cooperation takes the passenger seat in local government

10/09/2013 - 17:59
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2013/10/09/cooperation-takes-passenger-seat-local-government-1358

If the marriage – or at least the association – of different modes of transport is developing, it suffers from a lack of cooperation between local authorities.

Natural disasters, mobility and inequalities

09/27/2013 - 17:07
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/video/2013/09/27/natural-disasters-mobility-and-inequalities-1308

Mobility – and the lack of it – can be a way for established powers to keep control of their populations, especially after a catastrophe, argues Mimi Sheller.

Double standards for our onshore and offshore worlds?

03/26/2013 - 09:52
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2013/03/26/double-standards-our-onshore-and-offshore-worlds-680

Foreign travel gives people and companies an opportunity to indulge in practices that may not be approved of or even legal back at home. Shouldn’t we remember to pack our ethical standards when we go abroad?

Mobility during natural disasters: a cause for concern

02/26/2013 - 14:04
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2013/02/26/mobility-during-natural-disasters-cause-concern-647

Floods and hurricanes can wreak havoc on a vast scale. However, the effects do not strike equally the societies faced with such dramatic events.

Mobile borders for migrating people

12/07/2012 - 17:39
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2012/12/07/mobile-borders-migrating-people-409

Borders are in a state of flux, as more sophisticated methods evolve for tracking the mobility of would-be migrants. As they go further within territories, they become more unequal, between the ones who can cross and the ones who can’t.

When mobility runs into the wall of immobility

12/07/2012 - 17:32
https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/60sec/2012/12/07/when-mobility-runs-wall-immobility-408

From the Israeli wall to the Syrian borders, international crises have shown that the ability of governments to prevent mobility is a key means of exercising power and conducting wars. And yet, does mobility always equal freedom?