Author: KimCvS
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Cultures of Water – Connecting Culture, Arts and Water Heritage
[Image from the beautiful cover of the Cultures of Water Special Issue published this September in the Cultural Studies Journal] Culture is a slippery, complex concept. The MobileWorlds project is focused mostly on how culture affects mobility, and what cultures of mobilities are and could be. Alongside this, however,…
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Join the MobileWorlds Special Sessions at RGS!
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference began yesterday with a beautiful call to more creativity and storytelling in academia, and for de-centering the “Global North”. In the meantime I had the privilege to join a session on Walking methods (and Zines) – if you have a chance to…
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The Future Design of Streets Conference
The Conference The Future Design of Streets in Guimarães last week provided a wonderful stage for finding allies and deepening willpower to create better streets and more human-centred (rather than tech- or car-centred) planning. I was also happy to contribute to a little bit of controversy, by challenging the collection…
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RSA Conference & presentation about “reconciling unity and diversity”
In early May 2025 I had the pleasure to participate at the Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference, this year in Porto, Portugal. The conference overall seemed rather conservative and technique / technology oriented, yet some more fundamental questions could also be found. Without being able here to share an exhaustive…
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Article published: Questioning Streets – On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures
Image by Ana Clara Nunes Roberti, copyrighted. The article Questioning Streets: On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures, was recently published in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. This article offers creative insights on historical and current uses of streets, as well as what could be impactful imaginaries for…
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MobileWorlds Library published!
We are excited to share that the MobileWorlds library is now published! Several parts are still under construction, but we’ve included several books, recipes, and podcasts so far, as well as referring again to the theatre performance by Roseane dos Reis. We’ll be including articles, films and music soon, so…
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A personal TCK story about transportation
As I discuss on multiple occasions on this website, I don’t see “third cultures” as emerging necessarily from a “Third Culture Kid” (TCK) background (see also Concepts page and the latest posts on “Third Cultures vs Third Culture Kids” and the feature on Roseane dos Reis). However, I (Kim) do…
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Feature #8: “Den Heilige Kua”, and its author, Roseane dos Reis
Roseane dos Reis is an actress, artist, critical thinker, mother, Brazilian resident in Norway, who has created the theatre performance “Den Heilige Kua – Om å føde ein nordmann” (The Holy Cow – About giving birth to a Norwegian), with its debut on 8 March 2024 (see the poster of…
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Third Cultures versus Third Culture Kids
In December, the MigrantKnowledge blog hosted a post I wrote about Third Cultures and how they are important similarities as well as differences between the experiences of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), often relatively privileged migrants’ children with the explicit expectation to locate “back” to an origin country after a specific…
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Call for Abstracts: Third Cultures of Mobility (RGS25 Online)
To better connect our network and spread the debate around “third” or alternative Cultures of Mobility, we have decided to propose an online special session at RGS-IBG 2025. Please see the Call for Abstracts below and join us! The deadline for abstracts is 10 February 2025. Call for Abstracts…