By Dr. Basak Tanulku Basak Tanulku is an independent researcher, based in Istanbul, Turkey.  Tanulku obtained a PhD degree in Sociology from Lancaster University in the UK for the research project: “An Exploration of Two Gated Communities in Istanbul, Turkey” (2010). Her main work focuses on socio-spatial fragmentation, gated communities; space and identity; urban vacant lands […]

By Dr. Basak Tanulku Basak Tanulku is an independent researcher, based in Istanbul, Turkey.  Tanulku obtained a PhD degree in Sociology from Lancaster University in the UK for the research project: “An Exploration of Two Gated Communities in Istanbul, Turkey” (2010). Her main work focuses on socio-spatial fragmentation, gated communities; space and identity; urban vacant lands […]

By Gladys Moraa Marie Nyachieo, Kenyatta University, Kenya This work is based on a conference paper presented during the 15th Annual T2M Conference (Mobile Utopia Conference).  The original paper was entitled “Exploring ‘Public’ Road Passenger Transport In Kenya: A Futuristic Utopia Or Dystopia?”Presented at Lancaster University, November 2-5, 2017. United Kingdom. The author focuses on the dynamics and […]

By C.R. van Tilburg, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)  Dr. van Tilburg is the author of Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire (London/New York: Routledge, 2007, repr. 2012). For more information about his work, visit his faculty profile page. Not all drawings remained merely utopias. I will discuss two examples of cities which were designed as utopias, but […]

By C.R. van Tilburg, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)  Dr. van Tilburg is the author of Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire (London/New York: Routledge, 2007, repr. 2012). For more information about his work, visit his faculty profile page. In our time, modern cities are planned and developed without paying any thought to the possibility of sieges. From […]

By Tarini Bedi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Dr. Bedi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois in Chicago, USA. She is also a member of the executive committee for the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M). This excerpt is part of a book that is an anthropological […]

by Michael K. Bess, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas This post is adapted from the conference paper and presentation that the author developed for the 2016 meeting of T2M in Mexico City. Michael is an assistant professor at CIDE in Mexico, focused on the study of mobility and transport in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico […]

By Alejandro Rascovan, IMICIHU/CONICET – FSOC/UBA This post launches the new season of content at Mobility in History Blog! It is adapted from the conference paper and presentation that the author developed for the 2016 meeting of T2M in Mexico City. Alejandro is a Posdoc Fellow with Argentina’s CONICET and instructor at the University of Buenos […]

Mobility in History blog has entered its sixth month actively publishing new content from scholars of transport history and mobility studies. We’re excited about the the work we’ve been able to highlight as well as new features for you, our readers. After launching at the end of January, we began publishing bilingual articles in English and […]

By Daniel Athias de Almeida and Sergio Fagerlande This post is adapted from the conference paper and presentation that the authors developed for the 2016 meeting of T2M in Mexico City. Daniel is a graduate student and a researcher in the Architecture Postgraduate Department of Architecture in the field of Project and Heritage at Federal […]

By Govind Gopakumar, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Govind Gopakumar is Associate Professor at the Centre for Engineering in Society at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research is quite interdisciplinary and has focussed on the politics of urban infrastructure, predominantly in Indian cities. He has increasingly become very interested in the “auto-mobility turn”. He is currently finishing a […]

By Robin Kellermann, Technische Universität Berlin Robin Kellermann is a PhD student, research associate and lecturer at Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the cultural history of mobility and transportation as well as digitalization effects in using and experiencing public transportation. The blog post outlines his on-going PhD project about the cultural history of waiting, […]

By Ivan Small, Central Connecticut State University (USA) Dr. Small is a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Central Connecticut State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University, and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia. Research for this post comes from his book manuscript: Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in […]

By C.R. van Tilburg, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)  Dr. Van Tilburg is the author of Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire (London/New York: Routledge, 2007, repr. 2012). He began participating with T2M since 2014 and has presented papers at the annual conferences in Philadelphia, Caserta (Italy), and Mexico City. For more information about his […]