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It was over a year ago and then I started writing the real thing.

It’s taking some time, but it will be glorious.

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We're glad that you came We need someone to look up to  Show us the way 'cause some say We've been using the wrong tools

sounds familiar, academic/practitioner from the Global South/s? 

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Little things (privileged) migrants miss:

I miss my books. I miss the notes I left on my books. I miss me-reading those books                                      …to find self-made consolation notes.

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First empirical chapter

Second draft

Already one presentation about it

Ps. No glory to the cars allowed, unless it's in the form of a good tune.

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Once you are a geographer, particularly one interested in theory, you always are a geographer. It is this confluence of the profound and the banal that gives geographical theory its special power

Geographical Thought: A Critical Introduction Tim Cresswell

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Silent for a long time. I am trying to achieve in one chapter what Gijs Mom so eloquently did in his amazing Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940. 

OK, not *exactly* what he did, but the essence of it. 

W i s h m e l u c k

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I couldn’t find a proper trailer. 

This film will be featuring on my thesis, no doubt. 

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The website catalog of the Ohio State University Press

10 years ago, I decided to find a place in the world where my ‘ingenuous and pretentious’ idea(l)s of research could be contested, nourished and encouraged. It gets me really emotional every time I find a book, paper or project that explores all those topics I wanted to engage with back in those years. 

Cheers to daring research projects! 

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I keep telling myself that as soon as I am done with my current research, I must do something about Middle Eastern cities. To be precise, I would just LOVE to do a research on Teheran. I have had a ‘crush’ on Iranian culture for a couple of years now and I am dying to learn Persian. 

However, every now and then I find things like this, a song in Arabic by an Israeli singer of Iraqi descent that shows how intermingled Middle East cultures, regardless of the huge differences between one and another, are and have been. How wouldn’t I want to engage in such appealing project? 

Questions of what to research, how and where start popping up from my head and for a moment I forget that I really don’t have time to fantasise about future research. Furthermore, the idea of learning (at least!) Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew is, although irresistible, overwhelming. 

For now, all I can do is dream. 

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...Somewhere between a graphic novel, a sociological study and a political manifesto, Slices of Mobile Life shows the issues associated with a European phenomenon that is anything but anecdotal: work-related high mobility.

‘This investigation focuses on people like Gaby, Martin, Émilie and Jean, men and women whose lives are shaped by their transport experience...’

This project is fascinating! By finding a way in which research can be transmitted in a narrative that underlines how everyday life is indubitably shaped by movement, regulation, investment, and all the efforts currently modifying the mobile agenda around the world, make sense to citizens.

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Sometimes, when I need to write a report and I just can’t get started, I go to Google Street View and choose a random road in Mexico City.

Then I remember

 The colours, the sounds, the textures of the streets, the rhythm of movement, all of the things that made me commit to a research about the city I always fail to describe how much I love.

I remember I’m living the dream

and words start popping up from my messy thoughts.

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Keeping Things Whole

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in   to fill the spaces where my body’s been.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

- Mark Strand

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The polyphonic dialogue of gazes, glances and stares in urban public space is also indicative of the social and gendered power relations that permeate this space

Lieven Ameel

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/urbannarratives/key-concepts/

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HD cities.

Someone took a heart-breaking song by The Radio Dept. and used it to make this too-high-definition-love letter to Chicago. To me, it’s even more heart-breaking the fact that you know there are people living in this version of the city, not because of the flashy shadows of humans occasionally popping-up, but because you know deep inside that there _must _be someone keeping all those lights on, all those roads clean, and all those trains running.  

Don’t drop me off just yet Spend some time Cause we’ve only just met We’re way behind Please just drive The city limit’s fine... 

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This series represents an exciting new publishing opportunity forscholars working at the intersection of literary, cultural, and mobilitiesresearch. The editors welcome proposals that engage with movement of all kinds– ranging from ...

It is genuinely comforting to find that there are people out there researching what you do, what you love. 

I just wish I could produce (write) as fast as this trend goes.

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Mexico City in 7, 6, 5...