Submission Instructions  

• Deadline for abstracts: 17 April 2023 (selected full papers due by 1 November 2023; publication September 2024)
• Abstracts: 350 words (please add a short bionote of 50-100 words)
• Full articles: 7000 words
• Abstracts and full papers should be sent to both guest editors: anna-leena.toivanen@uef.fi; pfalzgraf@uni-bonn.de
• Please use the subject heading “Special issue: mobility” in your emails
• Please refer to the journal’s guidelines for author:  Submit to English Studies in Africa (tandfonline.com)

Social sciences and the humanities are affected by a mobilities turn that foregrounds the meanings of mobility in social and cultural formations. Mobilities research concentrates on “the study of various complex systems, assemblages and practices of mobility” (Sheller 2014, 45), opposing itself to “sedentarist” theories that “treat […] as normal stability, meaning, and place, and treats as abnormal distance, change, and placelessness” (Sheller and Urry 2006, 208). The mobilities turn is not solely a social sciences phenomenon. As important predecessors such as Clifford’s concept of “dwelling in travel” (1997) show, mobilities research is firmly rooted in the humanities (Merriman 2012, 13–14; Aguiar et al. 2019, 4–5; Merriman and Pearce 2017, 493–494). The “mobility humanities” (Kim et al. 2019, 100) pays attention to the ways in which the meanings of mobility are produced by humanistic production via representation, imagination, and speculation.