{"id":218,"date":"2014-05-13T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobilitiesresearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:13:34","slug":"test-with-no-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/test-with-no-image\/","title":{"rendered":"CeMoRe Annual Research Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venue:<\/strong> Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø Conference Centre<\/p>\n The Annual CeMoRe Research event will follow on from Rachel Aldred’s workshop.<\/p>\n Programme (8 May2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n Free lunch – for speakers and audience – you MUST register with Pennie Drinkall<\/strong><\/p>\n Each speaker has a 20 minute slot. Talk for 10-15 minutes followed by 5-10 minutes discussion. These timing will be strictly adhered to. Brief presentations MUST be sent in advance to <\/strong>p.drinkall@lancaster.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a>. The talk should be modelled on a TED talk and must NOT seek to summarise whole books or whole PhDs…<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.30-2.30pm MIGRATION AND MOBILITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: James Faulconbridge<\/p>\n Zana Vathi, Edge Hill University: Tales of a midsummer day: experiences of locality and (super) diversity of the Albanian origin teenagers upon their families’ return to Saranda<\/strong><\/p>\n In this paper, the experiences of Albanian-origin teenagers whose families returned to Albania from Greece are analysed in relation to the temporal (super)diverse characteristics of the context in which they have relocated, and the concepts of stasis, mobility and time. Summers bring to Saranda internal and international tourists, visitors and migrants, changing the demography, the mobility patterns, and the urban landscape. Findings show that the characteristics of the urban space and the temporal aspects of diversity affect teenagers’ settlement, identification and belonging, which show seasonal and temporal dimensions.<\/p>\n Abhirarm Chandrasen, Marketing Lancaster: Home is where the heart is. Home countries and their influences on sojourners’ consumption preferences<\/strong><\/p>\n In an increasingly interconnected world, more and more consumers are leaving their home countries to take-up temporary residence abroad (IOM, 2005). This group of transnational travellers are known as the sojourners (Gullekson and Vancouver, 2010). Despite the recognition of this phenomenon, research on sojourners’ consumption practices has largely been neglected (Bardhi et al, 2012; Sirkeci, 2013). To address this gap, a study on the influence of home countries on international student sojourners (N = 176) was conducted. It was found that their home countries were indeed influential toward consumption practices during their temporary stay in the host country.<\/p>\n Hania Janta, Surrey, ‘Female Migrant Architects in Basel and their Visits Home’ University of Surrey, h.janta@surrey.ac.uk <\/strong><\/p>\n Technological and transport changes, combined with revisions to immigration policies, are impacting on the frequency and ways the migrants maintain their relationships with family and friends at home. This presentation will outline a project that aims to look at migrant women working as architects in Basel, Switzerland in order to explore the experiences of migrants’ visits home and ways they maintain relationships with their friends and families. By employing in-depth interviews with migrant women, this project will shed light on factors that frame access to various home visits options and experiences.<\/p>\n 2.30-4.05pm DESIGNING NEW MOBILITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Jen Southern<\/p>\n Walter Goettlich, Concordia, My Other Ride is a\u2026 Systems of Surveillance & Invitations to Imagination on the American Interstate Highway.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Along its 45,000 miles, the network of American interstate automobility comprises a number of interpenetrating, schematic\/schematizing techno-cultural subsystems that include automated tollbooths, electronic financial transactions and position-aware technologies. These systems ease passage, but also enhance surveillance. Non-systemic gaps persist\u2014bumper stickers amongst others\u2014opening possibilities for the driving subject to be ‘seen’ that do not entail surveillance systems. Such spaces, which require the attention and imagination of other drivers, are at once material and discursive; real and virtual; subjectifying and liberating; interstitial and yet produced through and informed by the dominant cultural systems and logics between which they are situated.<\/p>\n