By Michael K. Bess, Editor–in–Chief of MHB Dear readers, Mobility in History Blog will be on hiatus for the month of August as we develop new work for our next season of content beginning in September. We’re planning to revamp how you use the blog by creating new sections to navigate to articles of interest […]
By Dr. Sharon Wilson, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University This is the second part of a 2–part series Dr. Wilson is writing on tourism and activism related to nuclear sites. For more about Dr. Wilson and her work, visit her faculty page. To read the first entry in this essay, click this link. Art and […]
Figure 5 Family Portait Chapel Cross. Nuclear Family Tour 2015
Figure 4 Nuclearity, Dungeness Boundary Marker. Nuclear Family Tour 2015
By Dr. Sharon Wilson, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University This is the first part of a 2–part series Dr. Wilson is writing on tourism and activism related to nuclear sites. For more about Dr. Wilson and her work, visit her faculty page. In the guise of a family holiday, artists Lindsay Duncanson, Marek Gabrysch and […]
Dhan Zunino Singh, Guillermo Giucci y Paola Jirón (eds.), Términos clave para los estudios de la movilidad en América Latina [Keywords for the study of mobilities in Latin America] (Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2018) Prologue by Noel Salazar. If ‘all that is solid melts into air’, it is in large part because movement has become the […]
By Katie V. Streit Katie Valliere Streit is an independent scholar based in Dayton, Ohio. Streit obtained a PhD in History from the University of Houston. Her research focuses on the history of automobility and state development in southern Tanzania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Historians spend countless hours in libraries and archives with backs […]
Hubs are collective meeting points, but they also evoke a specific socio–material nexus of flows throughout history: from Neanderthals to medieval markets, from spice routes to Indigenous gatherings, hubs have provided a common place for people to meet, exchange and continue their journey. Hubs control and direct the flows of people, goods, currencies and so […]
