size” and displacing it. 19 There is more to say about African mobilities as “a theoretical standpoint” not least for its unflappable potential to serve “as a critique of Western notions of mobility that have been universalized” and also because it
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“Africa, Are We There Yet?” Taking African Mobilities Seriously—Concluding Remarks
Kudzai Matereke
“Containers, Carriers, Vehicles”
Three Views of Mobility from Africa
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Jeroen Cuvelier, and Katrien Pype
This aim of this special section is to announce the launch of a new portfolio of articles on African mobilities. The Africa portfolio seeks to open up a new analytical landscape at the crossroads of mobility, transport, and communication
Frontiers of Mobilities Studies
Georgine Clarsen
Since its inception, this journal has been at the leading edge of publishing research that rethinks mobilities from a humanities perspective. We learned much in the process. A plenary panel held at the T2M conference in Drexel University in September 2014 reflected on the experiences of our editorial team and announced our plans to organize our future work through a number of broad portfolios. Each invites/dares our contributors to take our thinking into new territory.
Editorial
Georgine Clarsen and Gijs Mom
-familiarizing it from Western perspectives with a special section devoted to “African Mobilities.” This special section reaffirms what we earlier declared as our political and intellectual commitment to take Africa seriously, not merely as “fodder for imported
Editorial
Gijs Mom and Georgine Clarsen
higher than the year before, partly as a result of two special sections (on Travel Writing and African Mobility). Four articles dealt explicitly with literature, and can be considered to be a part of the media and mobility portfolio. None of the
Aeromobilities of Student Newcomers in Francophone African Fiction
Anna-Leena Toivanen
complexity—or tragedy—is manifest in most of the analyzed texts. While acknowledging the colonial roots of “modern” mobilities in Africa, it is also necessary to underline, as Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga does, that the study of African mobilities often
Ten Years of Transfers
Mobility Studies and Social Change during a Pandemic
Mimi Sheller
workspace.” His work has long reminded us that humans, insects, animals, and disease travel together, as both vehicles and passengers. 27 The special section on “African Mobilities” helped to push the field of mobility studies toward non-Western analytical
Trending Transfers
A Decade of New Mobility Studies through the Lens of Transmodality, Transnationalism, and Transdisciplinarity
Gijs Mom
mobility history. It was on these workshops in Delhi, Kolkata, Dakar, Shanghai, Santiago de Chile, Leuven (on African mobility), Wollongong (on settler colonialism and gendered automobility), Lancaster (on the Middle East and the Saudi-Arabian “drifters
Conservation-Induced Resettlement
The Case of the Baka of Southeast Cameroon—A Variation on the Habitual Mobility–Immobility Nexus
Harrison Esam Awuh
change in the environment. Also, inscribing itself in the second conceptual strand of this special section on African mobilities, “mobilities of technology,” my article pursues a critical examination of encounters between incoming knowledge and practices