Great new piece by Weiqiang Lin on how automation in airports is changing embodied labour, zooming in on workers' micro-mobilities: 'These nuanced responses point to a not-so-simple story of labour’s bodily insertion into tech-oriented service economies' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If you are heading to #IAG2024 this year, and there is a hint of awkwardness circulating in your research, please consider submitting a paper to The Awkward Session convened by myself, David Bissell, Lilli Crovara and George Drew. We'd love to hear from you! For more info see CfP:

my new paper @rgs_ibghe explores the intimate transitions of economic and environmental change for workers. dwelling in melancholy feeling-spaces of life after industrial closure, it draws out a paradoxical role for memory in remaking life after ‘the end’ doi.org/10.1111/tran.1…

We’re thrilled to have you on board Lilli Crovara 🙏

Nuanced and compelling theory paired with sparkling vignettes in this inspiring new article by vickie zhang Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol on the productive role of memory in navigating situations of industrial change. Highly recommend 🙌 Open access in Transactions RGS-IBG Higher Ed rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In 2022, the SCGRG awarded my book the Runner Up prize in their book prize panel (which I am still in shock about!). SCGeog Journal have organised and published a review panel of Veganism, Archives and Animals (@routledgebooks) which is now published:
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New paper w/ vickie zhang David Bissell is finally out in Progress in Human Geography💫

We trace the scholarly habit of rehabilitating negative affects into positive ones, foregrounding its ethico-political challenges, & develop an alternative ethics of 'impotentiality’.

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We've got a really inspiring set of special issues currently in progress at Social & Cultural Geography—being led by a series of brilliant guest editors 🙌—that we think showcase some of the most innovative thinking in social and cultural geographical debates

The most recent issue of Australian Geographer AustralianGeographer is a special issue on Mobilities Justice edited by Theresa Harada Theresa Harada. It opens with Theresa considering Mobilities Justice and Sustainable Futures tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… David Bissell Thomas Birtchnell Michelle Duffy Farida Fozdar Ben Iaquinto David Radford and Lauren Rickards argue that Mobilities research must recentre the region in their terrific Thinking Space Essay.

Interested in hearing about the future of work? Come join us for a special geography seminar by University of Melbourne visitor Nancy Worth 1-2pm Tuesday 14 Nov, Theatre 1, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton. All welcome! #geogmelb

Come to our Challenging Mobilities AusMob Symposium University of Melbourne on 30 November! Free registration! Full program now released → ausmob.com.au/symposium-2023

So excited for the AusMob 2023 on Challenging Mobilities. I will be presenting and critiquing the 'Pod Man' persona: a rational, individual and hyper-masculine image of the ideal transport consumer.

We’re really excited about our AusMob 2023 Symposium on Challenging Mobilities, 30 November 2023 University of Melbourne! Come and join us 🤩 Free registration here: ausmob.com.au/symposium-2023