Special issues

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Mobile Labour
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2021 pages 155-272
Pandemic (Im)Mobilities
Volume 16, Issue 1, 2021 pages 1-153
On Time
Volume 15, Issue 5, 2020 pages 635-755
Special Section: Reproductive Mobilities
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020 pages 107-307
Mobile Utopia
Volume 15, Issue 1, 2020 pages 1-105
Anthropocene Mobilities
Volume 14, Issue 3, 2019 pages 289-400
Therapeutic Mobilities
Volume 14, Issue 1, 2019 pages 1-136
Old Securities New Mobilities
Volume 13, Issue 2, 2018 pages 171-290
Curated Issue: Transport Mobilities
Volume 12, Issue 5, 2017 pages 611-793
Mobility and the Humanities - An Introduction
Volume 12, Issue 4, 2017 pages 493-609
Curated Issue: Slow Mobilities
Volume 12, Issue 1, 2017 pages 1-166
Mobilities Intersections
Volume 11, Issue 4, 2016 pages 485-641
Crossing Borders
Volume 11, Issue 3, 2016 pages 343-484
Traces of a mobile field: ten years of mobilities research
Volume 11, Issue 1, 2016 pages 1-170
Mobilities & Foucault
Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 pages 479-(ebi)
The mobilities of ships and shipped mobilities
Volume 9, Issue 3, 2014 pages 337-478
Borders and Mobilities
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2013 pages 1-165
Roads & Anthropology
Volume 7, Issue 4, 2012 pages 459-ebi
Mobilities and Forced Migration
Volume 6, Issue 3, 2011 pages 301-450
Mobile City Singapore
Volume 5, Issue 2, 2010 pages 167-290
Love, Sexuality and Migration
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2009 pages 295-447
Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures
Volume 3, Issue 3, 2008 pages 313-472

Special issue information

Special Issues



Mobilities welcomes proposals for special issues. The deadlines for proposals is 30 June each year. Please note that Mobilities receives more proposals than we have space for and competition is fierce. Special Issue proposals should be sent direct to [email protected]. Please do not submit special issue proposals through the online submission system at this stage. Special issue proposals received during the year will be acknowledged and considered by the Editors in July/August following the deadline when all proposals will be examined for publication.

For each special issue:



  1. We recommend that you consult the journal’s Aims and Scope to ensure that this journal is a good fit for your proposed Special Issue. Specifically, this is a journal of largely qualitative social science focused on the ‘mobilities’ turn, and we will not consider proposals that are focused on questions of the engineering or technical aspects of mobility systems or transport studies.

  2. We require a working title, short details of each author and the special issue editors, article abstracts, keywords and details of how these articles are tied together relating to the Mobilities literature;

  3. Special Issue Editor(s) should commission, edit papers and produce an introduction.

    The special issue should be delivered to Mobilities only after the Special Issue Editor(s) have completed their own internal review of the articles;
  4. Special issues should be around 75 - 90,000 words and made up of 5-8 articles.

  5. Please refer to our Instructions for Authors for layout, in particular our referencing style etc.

  6. If the special issue is commissioned for publication the Managing Editor (Pennie Drinkall) will agree an estimated publication date, nominate a Mobilities Editor and draw up a timetable;
  7. It is the responsibility of the Special Issue Editors to appoint an external referee or referees to undertake the 'blind' review of the issue. Mobilities journal will appoint their own internal referee;

  8. The Mobilities Editors, on the basis of those assessments, will approve all or some of the issue;

  9. The Mobilities Editors reserve the right to make the topic a section rather than a whole issue;

  10. Upon receipt of the referees' report the Managing Editor will send the comments and date for return direct to the corresponding Special Issue Editor and the Mobilities Editor. The Managing Editor will also forward copies of the reports to both referees.