Co-founded by John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Kevin Hannam in 2006 Mobilities has grown and developed into the internationally recognised Journal it is today. Mobilities was accepted by the SSCI in 2010 and stands as a testament to John Urry's pioneering work and leadership in the 'new mobilities paradigm' in social science research. Following John Urry's death in 2016 the Editorial team has grown to include Kevin Hannam, David Tyfield, Julie Cidell, Pete Adey and Kathy Burrell.
A statement from Lancaster University paying tribute to John Urry can be found here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/john-urry/
Mobilities examines the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private space, the travel of material objects in everyday life, and the embodiments of mobility and immobility. New transportation, technological and digital infrastructures, novel and transitioning social and cultural practices pose important challenges for coordinating and governing mobilities, for mobility rights and questions of ‘access’ and ‘justice’. These ‘mobility’ issues have generated new research methods and theories.
The journal addresses major topical issues and fosters scholarly debate around the ‘mobilities’ turn. Papers sent for peer review from this journal generally have a strong theoretical as well as empirical focus in mobilities scholarship specifically. Even as they may bring new angles and thinking to the field, we expect articles to make their contributions to 'mobilities turn' literature, theory, methods and audiences, deliberate and explicit. While initially core contributions have come from multi-disciplinary ‘movement-based’ fields such as tourism, transport and migration studies, submissions that focus only on such issues but are not engaged with mobilities scholarship in this way will be returned to authors for submission to a more appropriate journal in those sub-disciplines.
Conversely, the journal recognises and welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship across the broad range of issues specifically engaging with mobilities scholarship, and encourages both qualitative social science and arts & humanities approaches. While the journal has not generally published 'review' or 'state of the art' articles in the past, we now welcome ideas for review pieces that both critically synthesise and push on new directions in the field – please contact the editors before submission of those articles if you have a review idea you would like to discuss.
Mobilities publishes original, theoretically-informed research which is international in scope. We positively encourage submissions from scholars of all ethnicities, and researchers writing from or about the Global South. Mobilities has always encouraged early career researchers to consider publication in Mobilities, and we endeavour to ensure that our review and editorial process is kind, constructive and timely.
Peer Review Statement
All submissions undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by up to three referees. The decisions of the editors are final.
Notes for Contributors
Editors:
Professor Peter Adey, Biography Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Professor Kathy Burrell, Biography, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Julie Cidell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor Kevin Hannam, City University of Macau, Macau PRC
Professor David Tyfield, Biography, LEC, Lancaster University, UK
Founding Editor
Professor John Urry (1946-2016)
Editorial Board:
Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, UK
Thiago Allis, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Kaya Barry, Griffith University, Australia
Frauke Behrendt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Thomas Birtchnell, University of Wollongong, Australia
David Bissell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Monika Büscher, Lancaster University, UK
Noel Cass, Leeds University, UK
Peter Chambers, RMIT, Australia
Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle, Australia
Tim Cresswell, North Eastern University, USA
Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Martin Emanuel, KTH Institute, Sweden
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USA
Govind Gopakumar, Concordia University, Canada
Jason Henderson, San Francisco State University, USA
Henk van Houtum, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Allison Hui, Lancaster University, UK
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, University of Hong Kong, China
Irit Katz, University of Cambridge, UK
Sven Kesselring, Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany
Paola Jirón Martínez, University of Chile, Chile
Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jinhyoung Lee, Konkuk University, South Korea
Weiqiang Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Peter Merriman, Aberystwyth University, UK
Massimo Moraglio, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Lesley Murray, University of Brighton, UK
Peter Peters, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Gina Porter, University of Durham, UK
Jillian Rickly, University of Nottingham, UK
Bradley Rink, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Joris Schapendonk, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
Stephanie Sodero, University of Manchester, UK
Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State University, USA
Justin Spinney, Cardiff University, UK
Tauri Tuvikene, Tallinn University, Estonia
Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada
Honggang Xu, Sun Yat Sen University, China
Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
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