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*Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual <br>
Conference, London 2010*<br>
<br>
*Call for Papers*<br>
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** <br>
<br>
*Socialist and Post-Socialist Mobilities*<br>
<br>
/Sponsored by the Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group/<br>
<br>
// <br>
<br>
/Convenors: Kathy Burrell (De Montfort University) and Kathrin <br>
Hörschelmann (University of Durham)///<br>
<br>
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in 'mobilities' (Urry, <br>
2000) -- that is the physical travel of people, the movement of objects, <br>
imaginative travel, virtual travel and communicative travel -- arising <br>
from the assertion that for too long social scientists have focused on <br>
peoples' experiences in static situations (home, work) while neglecting <br>
the fact that movement and travel are just as significant to people's <br>
lives. Whether this constitutes a new 'mobilities paradigm' or not, it <br>
is undeniable that this focus on mobilities has spawned a wave of <br>
fascinating research projects which have placed human mobility at the <br>
heart of geographical, social, corporeal and material experiences, from <br>
the history of the M1 motorway (Merriman, 2004) to the experience of <br>
being a passenger on public transport (Bissell, 2010), to the journeys <br>
of Indian saris (Norris, 2008). While many of these discussions have <br>
invigorated the discipline of transport geography especially, these <br>
debates about 'mobilities' have the potential to provide a very useful <br>
analytical tool for socialist and post-socialist geographies.<br>
<br>
The different socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union <br>
had a fundamental impact on the mobilities of ordinary people. On the <br>
one hand they worked hard to control the international mobility of <br>
people, attempting to censor images and communcations from non-aligned <br>
countries and making it almost impossible to emigrate or travel abroad, <br>
while at the same time keeping much freer lines of mobility and <br>
communication open within the socialist bloc. These different regimes <br>
also shaped, purposefully or inadvertently, people's everyday <br>
mobilities. Running a household in a shortage economy, for example, <br>
necessitated specific routes to and from work to take in certain shops <br>
and positioned people in slow moving queues for hours on end (Merkel, <br>
1998; Veenis, 1999), effectively rendering them immobile. State <br>
sponsored holiday policies ensured that many families travelled <br>
extensively within their countries, but the presence of troops, militias <br>
and the secret police also had negative impacts upon people's ability to <br>
move freely around their neighbourhoods. For some people the state of <br>
the public transport systems dominated their daily routines. In addition <br>
to all these physical mobilities, imaginative mobilities were very <br>
important to daily life in the socialist bloc too, not least the <br>
presence of the 'Imagined West' (Yurchak, 2006), brought to people <br>
through western goods and popular culture. Mobilities theories clearly <br>
offer a distinctly geographical prism through which to reassess the <br>
spatialities of everyday life in the socialist bloc.<br>
<br>
The relevance of mobility to the post-socialist experience is equally <br>
fundamental. Most obviously, the collapse of socialism heralded a <br>
liberalisation of international mobilities - an upsurge in migration, <br>
new advertising and international business ventures, and an increasing <br>
globalisation of popular culture being the most obvious examples <br>
(Pilkington et al. 2002; Hörschelmann and Schäfer, 2005 & 2007). 1989, <br>
2004 and 2007 are evidently watershed markers for international <br>
migration in the post-socialist world, reinforced by the growth in <br>
budget airlines linking eastern and western Europe (Burrell, 2008). <br>
However, just as the large-scale markers of mobility seemed to be <br>
relaxing, everyday mobilities have not necessarily followed suit. New <br>
experiences of poverty and unemployment have shrunk the spatial routines <br>
of many (Stenning, 2005; Hörschelmann and van Hoven, 2003), the loss of <br>
subsidised travel and holiday trips impacting heavily on the ability of <br>
ordinary people to move around their countries and locales.<br>
<br>
This session seeks to investigate the impact of the different socialist <br>
regimes, and their demise, on the experiences of mobility of ordinary <br>
citizens. It asks to what extent mobilities theories can add to <br>
understandings of these regimes and their collapse, offering a new <br>
spatial vantage point from which to consider the everyday experiences of <br>
socialism and post-socialism.<br>
<br>
Papers are invited which explore this theme. Possible topics may <br>
include, but are not limited to:<br>
<br>
· Internal and international migration during and after socialism<br>
<br>
· Internal and international travel, tourism and holidays during <br>
and after socialism<br>
<br>
· Public and private transport during and after socialism<br>
<br>
· Everyday mobilities in a shortage economy<br>
<br>
· Everyday post-socialist mobilities<br>
<br>
· Fear, surveillance and mobility<br>
<br>
· Imaginative mobilities during and after socialism<br>
<br>
· Communicative mobilities during and after socialism<br>
<br>
· Mobility, gender and age<br>
<br>
· Intersecting scales and global mobilities<br>
<br>
Please send all enquires and completed abstracts to Kathy Burrell <br>
(<a href="mailto:kburrell%40dmu.ac.uk">kburrell@dmu.<wbr>ac.uk</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kburrell%40dmu.ac.uk">kburrell@dmu.<wbr>ac.uk</a>>) and Kathrin <br>
Hörschelmann (<a href="mailto:kathrin.horschelmann%40durham.ac.uk">kathrin.horschelman<wbr>n@durham.<wbr>ac.uk</a> <br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:kathrin.horschelmann%40durham.ac.uk">kathrin.horschelman<wbr>n@durham.<wbr>ac.uk</a>>) by Friday 6^th February <br>
2010. When submitting your abstract please ensure you include the <br>
following information: name; institutional affiliation and contact <br>
email; title of proposed paper; abstract (no more than 250 words) and <br>
any technical requirements.<br>
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