platform on which science, technology, and society interact provides a “real-time understanding of [scientific] practice.” 6 In other words, the museum’s scientific simulation “for dummies” through the “tick of birth and the tock of death” we associate
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The “Mangle” of Human Practice
Museu do Amanhã’s Artistic Staging as a Socioscientific Narrative on Climate Change
Rodanthi Tzanelli
Gijs Mom and Georgine Clarsen
editors of this journal and guest editors of a Special Section on Media and Mobility, made a plea to study “the intense correlations between media and transport technologies,” which had been fatefully split at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 On that
Kudzai Matereke
whitewashing cultural and historical difference uncritically focus on technology transfer and how it has shaped mobility in Africa. This tangent, despite its importance, has skewed mobility discourses by emphasizing the “taken-for-granted assumptions about
Embodied Vibrations
Disastrous Mobilities in Relocation from the Christchurch Earthquakes, Aotearoa New Zealand
Gail Adams-Hutcheson
onto historic buildings, to evoking a feeling of destruction, gaps, dead space, and silence, and then a “rising from the ashes” noisy amalgam of construction vehicles, workers, and technologies. Focusing on disaster underscores the hypermobility of
Raili Nugin
relied on cultural construction of the rural as traditionally agricultural; on the other hand, she wanted to deconstruct the category of traditional rural idyllic agricultural work and apply modern technology and innovation to the construction of rurality
Ocean, Motion, Emotion
Mobilities and Mobilizations in the Pacific
Matt Matsuda
Pacific across centuries has been trade—the movement of goods from sago and fish, to silk and spices, to sugar and copra, to petroleum and high technology. Not all of the trade was commodities, however; sometimes it involved bodies and lives resettled in
Historical Fragments’ Mobile Echo
Encountering the Current Refugee Crisis with Ai Weiwei
Susan E. Bell and Kathy Davis
conveys simultaneously a story of the tea trade and a cultural practice of tea drinking, as well as a history of family and cultural traditions destroyed by the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Technologies of communication and travel enabled an assemblage of
Introduction
Print Culture, Mobility, and The Pacific, 1920–1950
Victoria Kuttainen and Susann Liebich
, they show that print culture constituted a key technology of travel and mobility, facilitating real and imagined contact for readers and travelers across the Pacific in distinct ways that remain undertheorized in mobility and print culture studies
Heidi Morrison, James S. Finley, Daniel Owen Spence, Aaron Hatley, Rachael Squire, Michael Ra-shon Hall, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin, Sibo Chen, Tawny Andersen, and Stéphanie Ponsavady
connections to his surroundings. The book contributes to the impetus of mobility studies to show that movement is about more than technology and minutiae of science, but about the whole human experience. The book begins with a brilliant introduction that
Tracey Reimann-Dawe
territories. In spite of his assumed cultural superiority and access to technology to aid his navigation through foreign terrain, the success of Rohlfs’s expedition was heavily reliant on the knowledge of his native African entourage as well as the good will