Power, Gender, and Authoritarian Mobility
From 1 to 4 September 2026, the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG), one of the largest international conferences in the field of geography, took place in London. Under this year’s theme, “Geographies of inequalities: towards just places”, researchers from around the world discussed how spatial and social inequalities emerge, reinforce one another, and can be overcome.
For the Saarmila project, the conference provided an opportunity to bring current findings into a more strongly theoretical debate on mobility, power, and social inequality. In the presentation “Against the inevitability of cars: power, gender, and authoritarian mobility”, Dr Andrea Amri-Henkel explored why car-based mobility appears so self-evident and which social power relations are reflected in it…
Real-World Labs Conference 2026
Back to the Future? Real-World Labs in Times of Disruptive Transformation Change emerges above all when new approaches are not only developed, but also jointly tested and further developed. Real-world labs provide a unique framework for this, bringing together different perspectives from academia and practice and enabling solutions to be tested and adapted directly under […]
