Co-founded by John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Kevin Hannam in 2006 Mobilities has grown and developed into the internationally recognised Journal it is today. Mobilities was accepted by the SSCI in 2010 and stands as a testament to John Urry's pioneering work and leadership in the 'new mobilities paradigm' in social science research. Following John Urry's death in 2016 the Editorial team has grown to include Kevin Hannam, David Tyfield, Julie Cidell, Pete Adey and Kathy Burrell.
A statement from Lancaster University paying tribute to John Urry can be found here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/john-urry/
Mobilities examines the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private space, the travel of material objects in everyday life, and the embodiments of mobility and immobility. New transportation, technological and digital infrastructures, novel and transitioning social and cultural practices pose important challenges for coordinating and governing mobilities, for mobility rights and questions of ‘access’ and ‘justice’. These ‘mobility’ issues have generated new research methods and theories.
The journal addresses major topical issues and fosters scholarly debate around the ‘mobilities’ turn. Papers sent for peer review from this journal generally have a strong theoretical as well as empirical focus in mobilities scholarship specifically. Even as they may bring new angles and thinking to the field, we expect articles to make their contributions to 'mobilities turn' literature, theory, methods and audiences, deliberate and explicit. While initially core contributions have come from multi-disciplinary ‘movement-based’ fields such as tourism, transport and migration studies, submissions that focus only on such issues but are not engaged with mobilities scholarship in this way will be returned to authors for submission to a more appropriate journal in those sub-disciplines.
Conversely, the journal recognises and welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship across the broad range of issues specifically engaging with mobilities scholarship, and encourages both qualitative social science and arts & humanities approaches. While the journal has not generally published 'review' or 'state of the art' articles in the past, we now welcome ideas for review pieces that both critically synthesise and push on new directions in the field – please contact the editors before submission of those articles if you have a review idea you would like to discuss.
Mobilities publishes original, theoretically-informed research which is international in scope. We positively encourage submissions from scholars of all ethnicities, and researchers writing from or about the Global South. Mobilities has always encouraged early career researchers to consider publication in Mobilities, and we endeavour to ensure that our review and editorial process is kind, constructive and timely.
Peer Review Statement
All submissions undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by up to three referees. The decisions of the editors are final.
Notes for Contributors
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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