Search results for "Mobilities"

Towards a Hostessing Society? Mobile Arrangements of Gender and Labour

2008

This article theorizes the forms and interrelations of mobilized work and arrangements of gender in the context of “new work”: an ideology of the flexible labour market of the new economy from the perspective of the workers. The notion of new work is further complicated by the thesis of the feminization of work, whereby, on the one hand, temporary employment is increasingly common also among men and, on the other, attributes and conditions formerly connected to women and understood as feminine virtues or domestic skills are now required from both women and men. Meanwhile, women migrate and are trafficked from poor countries to wealthy ones to perform a range of “old work” for women. Here, t…

Modes de représentation des trajectoires quotidiennes des habitants

2007

Representing the daily trajectories of individuals Current research on inhabitants' daily mobilities has confirmed that individual mobility strategies are based on activity programmes. In France, the Household Travel Survey (HTS) is one of the principal sources of information about individual travel behaviour. Despite some drawbacks, they are rich sources of spatio-temporal data, as well as providing information on individual and household characteristics. However, for daily mobilities to be analysed, the raw data need to be reorganized. This study is based on the Grenoble-area Household Travel Survey, carried out in 2002. We propose to explore the HTS data through examples of individual mo…

Corpi d’acqua. Memorie odeporiche di minori migranti in una prospettiva etnostorica

2019

The essay presents some results of an ethnographic survey conducted in Palermo (Sicily) in a host community for unaccompanied foreign minors, focusing on the collective imaginary of the sea that a group of migrant minors from South Africa in-corporated during their travels. It highlights, from an ethno-historical perspective, the oral narratives and life stories collected during the symbolic-liminal passage through the Mediterranean sea. The re-elaboration of time and space in the boat correlates to the “bodies of water” as a possible contribution to the prospective discourse on trau-ma, exclusion, survival of separated children.

Theoretical approaches for geometric optimization of urban forms : towards a fractal development of the city

2017

This thesis aims to establish a urban structure that optimizes inhabitant's preferences. In other words, we want to find out which city shape answers the best the residents' aspirations, according to their consumption preferences for urban and green amenities. By considering a theoretical field of study and by characterizing the population by a Cobb-Douglas behavioral pattern, we will build step by step a city, assuming successive arrivais of new individuals, in order to find out which geometric shape gives the most suitable answer. The final goal of this thesis is there to suggest a city with a fractal shape as an appro- priate answer to the resident's expectations. We will show that this …

The Travel and Tourism Industry

2017

Earlier chapters focused on the intersection of terrorism and tourism, but this depends on how terrorists changed their tactics to instill terror in society. Some decades ago, terrorists selected celebrities, important persons, or chief police officers as main target of their attacks, but now this role is filled by tourists and global travellers. The situation worsened when Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared jihad against ‘tourism and modern hot-spots of consumption’. The concept of mobilities was historically manipulated by Western powers to impose a one-way discourse which aims to discipline the Other as inferior to European masters.

The epistemological structure of mobilities

2021

Purpose This paper aims to revolve around two problems which, though imagined as different, can be addressed altogether. On one hand, the advance of terrorism as a major threat to the tourism industry, while – on the other – we discuss the ontological nature of tourism as a rite of passage, which is vital to keep the political legitimacy of officialdom. At the time, paradoxically, social scientists shrug off tourism as a naïve commercial activity, while the main tourist destinations are being attacked by jihadism. This suggests the disinterest of ones associates to the interests of others. Design/methodology/approach The author holds the thesis that tourism derives from ancient institution…

The Routledge Handbook of mobilities

2015

Diversity of Lactobacillus species in deep carious lesions of primary molars

2010

AIM: This was to determine the prevalence of Lactobacilli (LB) species in different stages of caries progression and are considered as secondary invaders of existing carious lesions and specialists for caries progression. METHODS: Carious dentine samples were collected from 70 primary molars (M) during step-wise (S1, S2: n = 35 M) or one-step (O1: n = 35 M) caries treatment and after 11 months of temporary restorations (S3, O2). LB were identified by selected physiological and biochemical characteristics, ratio of lactic acid isomers, electrophoretic mobilities of lactic acid dehydrogenases, and shotgun mass mapping by MALDI mass spectrometry. RESULTS: LB were isolated from 46% of soft dent…

Chi ha bisogno della mobilità? Per una critica situata del new mobilities paradigm

2021

Nei vent’anni trascorsi dalla pubblicazione di “Sociology Beyond Societies” di John Urry (2000), il testo che ha anticipato e ispirato il successivo mobility turn nelle scienze sociali, si è assistito a un proliferare di discorsi sulla mobilità che hanno travalicato dipartimenti, riviste e discipline portando al centro della scena migrazioni, flussi turistici, viaggi virtuali, trasporti di merci e persone. Obiettivo di questo contributo è di indagare criticamente i processi e le condizioni di produzione del mobility turn e di rileggerne contenuti, attori e metodologie all’interno dell’operazione strategica che l’ha sostenuto. In particolare, muovendo da una delle domande fondative della geo…

Rate capability of a cryogenic stopping cell for uranium projectile fragments produced at 1000 MeV/u

2016

At the Low-Energy Branch (LEB) of the Super-FRS at FAIR, projectile and fission fragments will be produced at relativistic energies, separated in-flight, energy-bunched, slowed down and thermalized in a cryogenic stopping cell (CSC) filled with ultra-pure He gas. The fragments are extracted from the stopping cell using a combination of DC and RF electric fields and gas flow. A prototype CSC for the LEB has been developed and successfully commissioned at the FRS Ion Catcher at GSI. Ionization of He buffer gas atoms during the stopping of energetic ions creates a region of high space charge in the stopping cell. The space charge decreases the extraction efficiency of stopping cells since the …