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SUMMARY:CfP Special Issue Transfers Journal (CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS \nFor a SPECIAL ISSUE to be published in Transfers Journal – Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies \n(CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS \nMotorways are neither inherently popular nor a “natural” outcome of motorization (Avila 2014; Kunze 2022; Magalhães 2024). Instead\, road building projects have always faced criticism\, even if much of the contestation remains marginalized (North 1998\, McNeish 1999). The construction of motorways worldwide is the result of sharp transnational political wills and the work of strong lobbies promoting motorization. Motorways shape collective and individual imaginaries of both landscapes and mobilities\, while functioning as political and economic instruments of power (Anand\, Gupta & Appel 2018; Coutard 2024). They lie at the center of socioecological controversies\, reflecting divergent visions of society (Seiler 2009) – some defending progress embodied by the infrastructure\, others highlighting its negative externalities. Many scholars depict motorways as scars on urban and rural landscapes\, emblematic of disruption and inequality (Avila 2014; Lewis 1997)\, and even as “an everyday form of devastation” (Williams 2025\, ix). Recent scholarly work further challenges their status as inevitable infrastructures of modernity and progress\, framing them instead as terrains of political struggle and contestation – criticized for their high financial and socioecological costs\, their reinforcement of motorization\, and their incompatibility with sustainability and climate goals (Magalhães 2024; Williams 2025). \nThe first motorway projects are almost as old as the automobile itself. However\, the idea of a road network exclusively for motorized traffic struggled to gain acceptance before World War II\, when only a very small minority of people owned cars. The 1950’s marked a key moment in the development of motorways and the global spread of motorization (Lewis 1997; Merriman 2007). While a common drive to construct motorways spanned Europe\, America\, and Oceania\, the rationales and methods varied significantly across contexts. Some countries prioritized extensive intercity networks\, others focused on ring roads to divert traffic from urban cores. These projects were shaped by diverse forces—ranging from lobbying by tourism\, automotive\, and oil industries to militarized agendas intertwined with economic arguments—revealing that the grounds for motorway building were far from uniform. The motorway embodies the social and economic aim of unimpeded circulation\, speed and connectivity\, openness\, political liberalism and economic prosperity (Harvey & Knox\, 2016; Kuligowsky 2019). Nowadays\, motorway networks remain considered as material and symbolic markers of development\, including in the Global South. Therefore\, motorway projects endure\, whether new constructions\, expansions\, or widenings. States continue to build and complete networks revealing socio-technical barriers that seem impossible to overcome (Mattioli et al.\, 2020; Jones and McCreary 2022). Despite the 2015 Paris Agreement and the urgent need to reduce worldwide CO2 emissions\, large road infrastructures emerge as sites of complex struggles involving competing visions between political authorities\, engineers\, developers\, commuters\, tourists\, local residents and ecologists. Motorway development has occurred at the cost of dispossession\, an aggravation of car dependency and environmental disasters. Debates on motorway projects expose tensions between planning objectives and residents lived realities (Seiler 2009; Kuligowsky 2019; Senior et al. 2024). Criticism of the motorway concept emerged as early as the first experiments in the interwar period and the 1950’s (Merriman 2017; Kunze 2022). Contestations of urban motorways in Western countries\, spurred by the rise of political ecology in the 1960’s and 1970’s\, drove sociotechnical changes that introduced pollution-mitigation technologies such as noise barriers\, tunnels\, and trenches. Yet\, while these measures encouraged more participatory policies and planning\, they largely served to increase public acceptability and deflect criticism rather than to limit further motorway expansion. Nowadays\, the contestation of large road infrastructure remains important\, at least in contexts where the voices of the opponents can be heard. Contestation over motorways reflects broader debates about modernity\, progress\, mobility\, sustainability\, and urbanity. Recent examples include the A69 motorway in Southwestern France\, which sparked strong environmental\, political\, and legal disputes\, and Switzerland’s 2024 referendum that unexpectedly resulted in the rejection of six motorway expansion projects after intense national discussions on the future of mobility. These cases illustrate how opposition extends beyond halting new construction to include initiatives for motorway removal or repurposing\, aligning with wider goals of sustainable urban development and liveable cities. \nThe special issue will gather empirical articles broadly engaging with the promotion\, support and refusal of motorway projects either in the past and in the present days. Contributions may also thematize the motorway as a physical place of contestation or activism. Conceptually\, the articles can engage with different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds including work on the system of automobility\, mobility justice and social movement theory. \nResearch perspectives could include (but are not limited to): \n\nPROMOTING AND DEFENDING MOTORWAYS: Advocates of motorways have advanced\n\na powerful\, optimistic narrative emphasizing their promises—framed around the ideas of safety\, reduced congestion\, socioeconomic progress\, speed\, efficiency and enhanced regional accessibility—while simultaneously deploying diverse strategies to deflect and manage criticism. How can we explain the emergence of the concept of motorways as exclusive spaces for motorized transport\, sidelining other modes? How is this idea promoted\, and through which arguments and political strategies? \n\nOPPOSING MOTORWAY PROJECTS: In what contexts are motorways contested\, and through which arguments? Resistance emerges across civil society and politics—from left-wing groups to the far right\, from public transport advocates to intellectual circles. These movements are highly diverse\, encompassing property owners\, municipalities\, neighborhood associations\, environmental organizations\, and mobility or planning experts. Their motivations range from environmental and health concerns (soil degradation\, pollution\, biodiversity\, climate change) to socioeconomic issues (territorial fragmentation\, economic impacts on alternative routes) and heritage preservation (loss of landscapes\, homes\, and cultural sites).\n\nPotential topics may include the following: \n\nThe expansion of national and international road networks and their contestation\nDiscourses on capacity\, induced traffic\, safety\, and efficiency\nTransnational knowledge circuits in motorway development\nAssumptions behind transportation governance and urban planning\nMotorways as space of escape and the ways markers of social difference (race\, ethnicity\,\n\ngender…) affects motorway users. \n\nRoad ecology or more specifically motorway ecology\nAlternative projects to motorways or removal and transformations\nSociospatial inequalities and silences in motorway refusal histories\n\nThis special issue will be edited by Suzy Blondin\, Manon Espinasse\, Andrea Pimentel Rivera and Tiphaine Robert. The editors (with Transfers editorship) will select the contributions based on originality\, relevance and scientific quality. \nAbstract deadline: 15 April 2026 \nPlease send your abstract to tiphaine.robert@unibe.ch \nThe abstract should include: \n\nName\, affiliation and e-mail address\nShort biography (100 words)\nExtended abstract of 1000 words including the title of the article\, a mention of the relevant\n\ntopic/research questions addressed. \nFor more information\, please do not hesitate to contact us. \nMore information on the Journal website: \nhttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/transfers-overview.xml
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SUMMARY:24th European Transport Congress "Resilient and Reliable Mobility Systems: Insights from Science and Practice"
DESCRIPTION:In 2026\, the Austrian Association for Traffic and Transport Sciences (ÖVG) celebrates its 100th anniversary – and we warmly invite you to join us for this special occasion! \nOn May 7\, 2026\, we will host an international anniversary conference in the beautiful Kuppelsaal of TU Wien\, in conjunction with the 24th European Transport Congress. The event will bring together leading voices from across Europe through inspiring keynotes\, high-level panels\, and scientific contributions from the mobility and transport research community. \nAt the heart of the conference are four key topics that pose major challenges – and opportunities – for our sector\, now and in the future: \n\nLabour & diversity\nClimate change & resilience\nAsset management & availability\nGeopolitical change & strategic dependencies\n\nSubmissions\nThe 2026 theme\, “Resilient and Reliable Mobility Systems: Insights from Science and Practice\,” invites contributions that explore how transport infrastructure can adapt to a changing climate\, meet increasing availability demands\, and remain robust amid external shocks. \nWe particularly welcome submissions on\, but not limited to\, the following topics: \n1. Maintenance and Availability of Transport Infrastructures \n2. Climate Change and Resilience in Relation to Transport Infrastructures \nWe invite the submission of extended abstracts (up to 9\,000 characters\, approx. 4 pages) for peer review by the Scientific Committee. A word template is provided for the extended abstracts. Accepted contributions will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. Outstanding submissions will be invited to submit a full paper for consideration in special issues at European Transport Studies (ETS) and the Austrian Journal of Traffic Sciences (ÖZV).
URL:https://t2m.org/event/24th-european-transport-congress-resilient-and-reliable-mobility-systems-insights-from-science-and-practice/
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SUMMARY:Call: 2026 Global Mobility Humanities Conference
DESCRIPTION:“Climate\, Mobility and Infrastructure”\n29 ~ 31 October 2026\nKonkuk University\, Seoul\nCall for Participation\nMobilities are woven into ‘the plot of the global climate crisis’\, and people’s movements are among ‘the most topical and concerning symptoms of planetary transformations’ (Baldwin and Bettini 2017\, 10). For this reason\, mobility scholarship has produced robust literature discussing mobility in relation with the climate since its earliest period\, for example when After the Car (Dennis and Urry 2009) was published. This literature has mainly focused on various but interconnected themes\, such as mobility transitions or fossil fuel and energy transitions\, climate migrants or refugees\, Anthropocene or more-than-human mobilities\, alternative mobilities or mobile (social) life\, and mobility governance or politics. Recently\, many journals have also organised special issues on topics such as ‘Anthropocene Mobilities’ (Mobilities\, 2019)\, ‘Time and Mobility after the Anthropocene’ (Sustainability\, 2020)\, ‘Shapes of Socio-ecologically Sustainable Mobility Regimes’ (Applied Mobilities\, 2023)\, ‘Mobility Justice’ (Australian Geographer\, 2023) and ‘Auto/biography\, Mobilities and the Climate Emergency’ (Mobilities\, 2024). These continuing publications demonstrate the enormous urgency and complexity of climate change today\, as well as alluding to the potential topics requiring the attention of mobility scholarship to achieve ‘more just mobility futures’ (Sheller 2021).\nBuilding on the theme of ‘mobility\, infrastructure\, and the humanities’ which was discussed at the 2022 GMHC\, this conference invites scholars to discuss mobility infrastructures in relation to the climate. While mobility infrastructures often have critical impacts on exacerbating today’s climate change through their construction\, maintenance\, and operation\, they are also ‘significantly exposed to the impacts of climate change’ which can lead to ‘widespread infrastructure failure and damages’ (OECD 2024). These impacts result in disproportionate social and environmental consequences based not only on geography but also on factors such as race\, class\, gender\, and age\, thus prompting us to attend to ‘climate mobility regimes’ which ‘frame\, manage\, and regulate the nexus between mobilities and climate change in a particular manner’ (Boas et al. 2022\, 3371).\nSome of emergent trends in recent times related to the above themes include the competitive development of electric vehicles (sometimes across geopolitical spaces) and the formation of ride-sharing economies. These technological innovations often intersect with deeply troubling Big Tech capitalism and monopolies\, both pushing away alternate models of transportation (such as cycling) and doing missionary work for automobility all over again (Liu\, 2022). At the same time\, the ‘growing importance of datafication and algorithmic culture across diverse (im)mobilities’ shows that ‘hybrid physical and data mobilities’ and datadriven mobility infrastructures are becoming increasingly important in addressing climate change (Behrendt and Sheller 2023). Urban Digital Twins (UDTs)\, for instance\, are considered to foster innovation in tackling complex urban challenges\, including the climate emergency\, by facilitating data-driven decision-making for urban operators (Zhu and Jin 2025). Yet\, these technological promises can take on a spectacular dimension\, where the promise of technological salvation through smart and green technologies masks and perpetuates ongoing extractive or exclusionary practices.\nThe conference significantly encourages scholars ‘to intervene epistemologically and politically in an ontology of infrastructure for its transformation\, occasionally mobilising creativity and imagination’ (Adey et al. 2024) to create more just mobility futures. That is\, this conference is committed to ‘imagining other forms of social life’\, what Amitav Ghosh (2016) refers to as ‘the challenge posed by the climate crisis’. This will be achieved more effectively through cross-disciplinary discussions about climate\, mobility\, and infrastructure\, that traverse multiple scales of humans\, nonhumans\, and more-than-humans\, and that attend both physical and hybrid mobility infrastructures and envisioned\, speculated\, or sensed mobility infrastructures\, embedded in literary\, cultural\, visual\, and creative endeavours and works.\nThis conference invites proposals from different disciplines within climate\, mobility and infrastructures studies\, including\, but not limited to: literary and cultural studies\, philosophy\, history\, art and design studies\, anthropology\, geography\, media and communication\, architecture\, urban planning\, climate and environmental studies\, science technology studies\, AI and data research\, tourism\, transportation\, education\, Black and Indigenous studies\, gender and sexuality studies\, and others. It will present an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of climate\, mobility infrastructure\, and the humanities\, transcending the conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities and the arts. We accept proposals for papers and sessions on one or more of the following topics/areas:\n• Literary\, cultural\, and arts studies on climate and mobility infrastructure\n• Philosophical research on climate mobility and infrastructure\n• Qualitative studies on climate mobilities and infrastructures\n• Alternative (im)mobilities and infrastructures\n• Political ecology of mobility infrastructures\n• Hybrid mobilities and infrastructures studies\n• Affects\, emotions\, and senses of mobility infrastructure\n• Ethnography of mobility infrastructures of nonhumans and more-than-humans\n• Vital elements of resilient\, sustainable and quality infrastructure\n• Fantasies\, desires\, and speculations of (sustainable) mobility infrastructures\n• Electric vehicles\, autonomous vehicles and other technologies\n• Other related issues\nProposals can be for individual papers\, panels\, artworks\, posters\, and other creative formats\, as outlined below. We welcome relevant contributions from any academic perspective or discipline. Beyond scholars\, this includes professionals\, policymakers and practitioners in the transport\, traffic\, and mobility field\, as well as artists and creative professionals\, designers\, engineers and educationalists in the art and humanities.\nThe conference language is only English.\nKey Dates\n1 June 2026 Deadline for the submission of abstracts and full\, pre-organised sessions 29 June 2026 Notification of acceptance for abstracts and sessions 29 June 2026 Early Bird registration opens 3 August 2026 Early Bird registration closes\n14 September 2026 Registration closes\n29-31 October 2026 Conference\nSubmission formats\nIndividual Papers: Individual submission of a paper consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. Papers will be grouped thematically by the programme committee and may become part of a 7/7\, debate\, or panel session.\nSessions: A full\, pre-organised 7/7\, debate\, or panel session. A session submission should include a title\, a summary of the session theme and the method chosen for facilitating discussion (300 words)\, as well as abstracts for each contribution/presentation (300 words). A short biography of each presenter is also required (100 words)\, with contact information.\n– 7/7 sessions: This means seven slides and seven minutes for each presentation (max 7 papers). The sessions will have plenty of time for discussion. This will be supported by having a chair who might also act as a discussant. Presenters shall focus on their main argument in order to avoid overly complex presentations.\n– Debate sessions: Debate sessions have a maximum of five presenters. Each gives a five-minute focused input to the topic\, and this should be followed by a discussion involving the audience. Led by a chair.\n– Panel sessions: Panels consist of a chair\, three to four paper presenters\, and one discussant (optional). Panels should include time for audience discussion. Each presenter has 20 minutes (15 min + 5 min for questions); papers are grouped thematically.\nArtworks\, Posters\, and Other Creative Formats: They are great ways to exhibit artwork and to discuss early\, exploratory\, or creative work at the conference. A submission consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. The full artwork\, poster\, and other creative format are due by 14 September 2026.\nAfter Acceptance\, all abstracts will be published on the conference website.\nSubmit your paper\, session proposals\, and /or poster to: 2026GMHC@gmail.com\nFor any questions\, send an email to: 2026GMHC@gmail.com\nRegistration\nAll participants must register and pay the registration fee via the conference website (details to follow)\, with only one submission per person.\nIndividual fee is for regular researchers.\nReduced fee is for PhD students\, researchers from the Global South\, and retired scholars.\nEarly Bird registration before 4 August 2026\nIndividual fee: 220 Euros\nReduced fee: 160 Euros\nRegistration after 4 October to 14 September 2026\nIndividual fee: 280 Euros\nReduced fee: 220 Euros\nThe registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials\, coffee/tea breaks\, two lunches (Friday and Saturday)\, a welcome aperitive (Thursday evening)\, and two dinners (Friday and Saturday).\nPlease email the Organising Committee (2026GMHC@gmail.com) with the subject heading “2026GMHC\nInquiry” if you have any questions or concerns.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-2026-global-mobility-humanities-conference/
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SUMMARY:Travellers of the Sea – Conference on Maritime History\, Marine Archaeology and Ethnology
DESCRIPTION:Experience three cities and two countries during this travelling conference that will take place at the Maritime Centre Forum Marinum\, Turku\, House of Sciences and Letters in Helsinki\, Finland and at the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn\, Estonia\, on 11th–13th June 2026. It is organised by the Finnish Maritime History Association\, the Finnish Maritime Archaeological Society\, the Estonian Maritime Museum and the Maritime Centre Forum Marinum. As with the 12 earlier biannual Maritime History Days conferences\, we aim to bring together scholars and students working on maritime history and related fields such as maritime archaeology\, ethnology and maritime folklore. \nThe overall theme of the conference is travelling by sea\, with no temporal or geographical limits and with a multispecies approach. Travelling by sea is probably as old as human society. Furthermore\, non-human animals have always travelled across the seas voluntarily or otherwise. Sea travel has countless purposes: to explore the world\, to make trade connections\, to migrate\, or to cruise. Sometimes the voyagers have been forced to escape from disasters or violent regimes. The Gulf of Finland\, for instance\, has connected Estonians and Finns for centuries\, from the seprakauppa/sõbrakaubandus trade to our own time when the sea area between Tallinn and Helsinki is one of the busiest ferry routes in the world. The increased mobility by people and goods has also raised questions on the sustainability of sea travel. More on the conference themes and topics can be found in our CFP below. \nWe aim to promote interdisciplinary encounters and discussions\, with the goal of bringing together scholars worldwide. The conference is intended for anyone working with topics somehow relating to the sea and maritime travel – previous experience with maritime history\, maritime archaeology\, or maritime ethnology specifically is not necessary. The bi-annual\, peer-reviewed journal Nautica Fennica will be offering participants the possibility to submit their papers in the journal. The publishing decisions will be made by the Nautica Fennica editorial board. More on Nautica Fennica here: https://smhy.fi/en/activities/nautica-fennica.  \nThe conference program includes three keynote lectures\, held by Dr. Kaori Nagai (Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature\, University of Kent)\, Dr. Mirja Arnshav (Research Coordinator\, The National Maritime Museum\, Stockholm)\, and Dr. Matteo Barbano (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow\, University of Genoa). Please find an introduction of our keynote speakers below. \nFor more information see: https://www.smhy.fi/en/activities/travellers-sea-conference
URL:https://t2m.org/event/travellers-of-the-sea-conference-on-maritime-history-marine-archaeology-and-ethnology/
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