Everyday Mobilities Symposium - Friday 5 July 2024

The Everyday Mobilities Workshop was a hybrid event at the University of Exeter with some speakers on-site and others online.

In recent years, daily travel - especially in urban spaces - has been increasingly politicised. Concerns about the climate emergency, air pollution, and inequities of health and risk exposures have shifted discussions about everyday mobility, simultaneously producing new policy thinking, planning experiments, activist movements, and public backlash. This workshop opens up these developments to critical reflection, interdisciplinary exploration, and historical consideration. It explores the social relations, cultural frames, and environmental concerns with which everyday travel has become entangled in different local, national and transnational contexts, as well as attending to the varied histories and possible futures of "getting around".