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

Winter 2011, Volume 1(3)

CONTENTS

Editorial

Gijs Mom, Georgine Clarsen and Cotten Seiler

Tracking Skilled Diasporas: Globalization, Brain Drain, and the Postcolonial Condition in Nigeria

Nduka Otiono

Constellations of Mobility and the Politics of Environment: Preliminary Considerations of the Shipbreaking Industry in Bangladesh

Deborah Breen

“The World Is My Domain”: Technology, Gender, and Orientalism in German Interwar Motorized Adventure Literature

Sasha Disko

The French Quest for the Silent Car Body: Technology, Comfort, and Distinction in the Interwar Period

Stefan Krebs

Urban Consumers on Two Wheels: Metropolitan Bike-sharing Schemes and Outdoor Advertising in Paris, Montreal, New York, and San Juan

Tomás López-Pumarejo

MOBILITY AND ART

Transborder Immigrant Tool

Fernanda Duarte

MUSEUM REVIEW

Het Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht, the Netherlands

Rolf-Ulrich Kunze

FILM REVIEW

“I Want to Ride My Bicycle”: The 11th Annual Bicycle Film Festival

Sønke Myrda

IDEAS IN MOTION

“Food Miles” and the Politics of Localism: Book Review Essay

Louise Nelson Dyble

“The Mobility of Tomorrow: Theses and Controversies.” A conference organized by the “Mobile Lives Forum” (Paris) at the Maison Rouge in Paris, May 2011

Sven Kesselring

BOOK REVIEWS