Transfers

Chief Editor: Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology

NEW IN 2011!  

Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies is a new peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge research on the processes, structures and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and commodities. Intellectually rigorous, broadly ranging, and conceptually innovative, the journal combines the empiricism of traditional mobility history with more recent methodological approaches from the social sciences and the humanities.

The journal's scholarly essays, book and exhibit reviews, artwork and photography, as well as special features provide a rich variety of perspectives that include: analyses of the past and present experiences of vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, migrants, and refugees; accounts of the arrival and transformation of mobility in different nations and locales; and investigations of the kinetic processes of global capital, technology, chemical and biological substances, images, narratives, sounds, and ideas.

Convened around a broad conception of mobility, Transfers provides an interdisciplinary platform to explore the ways in which experiences of mobility have been enabled, shaped and mediated across time and through technological advances.

Subjects: History, Cultural Studies, Migration

FORTHCOMING ISSUE

Spring 2012, Volume 2(1)

CONTENTS

Editorial
Gijs Mom, Georgine Clarsen and Cotten Seiler

Thinking Mobility
Marc Augé

Off-grid Mobilities: Incorporating a Way of Life
Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart

Airports as Urban Narratives: Toward a Cultural History of Global Infrastructures
Nathalie Roseau

SPECIAL SECTION ON ROADS
My Way or the Highway: Introduction to the Special Section on Roads
Thomas Zeller

Building a Hybrid Highway System: Road Infrastructure as an Instrument of Economic Urbanization in Belgium
Michael Ryckewaert

European Models, Domestic Hesitance: The Renewal of the Italian Road Network in the 1920s
Massimo Moraglio

Britain and “the Motorway Club”: The Effect of European and North American Motorway Construction on Attitudes in Britain, 1930–1960
Peter Merriman

How Were Motorways Specified? A Comment on the Special Section on Roads
Maxwell Gordon Lay

MOBILITY AND ART
When Bicycles Become both Attitude and Form
Rosanna Dematté

EXHIBITION REVIEW
L’art de l’automobile, chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Ralph Lauren
Paul Smith

MOVIE REVIEW
Vietnamese Cinema on the Move: Representing Mobility and Circulating Movies in Vietnam and Abroad
Stéphanie Ponsavady

IDEAS IN MOTION
Cycling: Image and Imaginary in the Cultural Turn; Review Essay
Peter Cox

BOOK REVIEWS