Category: Third Cultures
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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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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…
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Feature #7: Ode to the Slow Cooker
The past months have been a bit quiet, as some may have noticed. This is because we have been slow cooking all the input we’ve gathered during this time, via workshops, reading, conferences and courses. It is telling for the state of academic work today, that a few months without…
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Children’s home-school mobility in Portugal
Children between 3 and 12 years of age in Portugal tend to be taken to school by their parents in private cars. Catarina Cadima, António Ferreira and I researched reasons for this, with the hypothesis in mind that perhaps parents’ fear of traffic, especially the fast growing use of electric…
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1st Anniversary of Mobile Worlds!
As we near the first anniversary of Mobile Worlds – the project anniversary was on the 1st of August 2023, but the website launch occurred a little later, in September – we have made a larger update of the Concepts and Methods pages, which we invite everyone to have a…