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3- 4 June, 2019, Utrecht University  Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, perceptions and cause severe changes in Human Mobility (Innes, 2016, Gray, 2018). While the importance and effects of technological innovations in social science research has been increasingly recognized,Continue Reading

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 Francisco Martínez (EHI, Tallinn University) – Palm down or thumb up: the fare depends on the gesture you do by the road. – In Russia, even Lenin seems to hitchhike, standing with a hand in his pocket and the other pointing up towards the future. Fig 1. Terje, the walkContinue Reading

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Reflections on Culture Works: Space, Value and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (NYU Press 2012), Arlene Davila, NYU Anthropology Each book has an ethos, and a lot of my work has been led by a critical angst on the mainstreaming of Latino culture, which is also reflected in Culture Works: Space,Continue Reading

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“Cartography is the signifying practice of both location and identity, a mode of writing through which we can uncover a set of general laws. Much of the argument I am making regarding the un-mapping, re-mapping and counter-cartographies to be found within contemporary art practices revolves around the structures and signifying systems by which knowledge isContinue Reading