Along with the publications by theme I have included related seminars, workshops and conferences that I organised mainly at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Lancaster.
Economic elites, mobility systems and luxury consumption
Book: (2014) Elite Mobilities. Edited by Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrío. Routledge.
Book chapter: (2014) Introduction: The movement of the few. In T. Birtchnell and J. Caletrío (eds). Elite Mobilities, Oxford, Routledge. (with Thomas Birtchell)
Book chapter: (2014) ‘This is not me’: Conspicuous Consumption and Travel Aspirations of European Middle Classes. In T. Birtchnell and J. Caletrío (eds). Elite Mobilities, Oxford, Routledge.
Article: (2014) Piketty and Mobilities. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2013) Why study the super-rich? Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2012) Global Elites, Privilege and Mobilities in Post-organized Capitalism. Theory, Culture and Society 29 (2): 135-149.
Event: Birtchnell, T., Caletrío, J. Urry, J. (2010) Mobilities of the Super-Rich. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.
Event: Caletrío, J. and Córdoba-Azcárate, M. (2008) Conference on Luxury Consumption and Tourism Landscapes in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.
Mobility systems and urban futures
Report: (2014) Living in the City. Review commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight Future of Cities Project.
Authors: John Urry, Thomas Birtchnell, Javier Caletrío, Serena Pollastri.
The report discusses the mobility systems that would underpin urban life in four different future scenarios.
Presentation at policy event: (2014) ‘Living in the City’, Foresight Future of Cities – UK Government Office for Science. London, 30 June.
Mobility systems, urban infrastructure, ecological transitions
Article: (forthcoming) Mobility policies, disinformation and the new media ecosystem.
Review essay: (2025) Transport for suburbia: Beyond the automobile age. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2024) The combined use of bicycles and trains in the Netherlands: a promising mode of transport in a suitable environment. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2023) Harnessing the social tipping dynamics for the ecological transition: the case of the electric car. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2019) What is automobility? In C. Gay, S. Landrieve, A. Kovalevsky (eds.) Mobile / Immobile: Artists and researchers explore our ways of life. Paris, Lineart Editions-Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2018) A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, by Alain de Botton. Transfers 8 (2): 150-152.
Book review: (2015) The World We Made by Jonathon Porritt. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2012) Mobilites by John Urry. Mobile Lives Forum.
John Urry regarded this book as an extension of Sociology Beyond Societies (2000). In that earlier book, he argued, ‘I never really developed a detailed analysis of just how and why mobilities make such a difference to social relations. And it did not sufficiently distinguish between different kinds of mobility systems and movement, tending to treat them all as rather similar to each other. I will thus seek to complete the project of that book by developing much more developed analysis of different mobilities and what I know call mobility-systems.’
Article: (2015) Transition studies. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2015) Code/Space by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2014) Automobility in Transition by Geels et al.. Mobile Lives Forum.
Debate: (2015) Multi-Level Perspective and Theories of Practice: a mistaken controversy? Mobile Lives Forum.
Article review: (2015) The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition by Wilbur Zelinsky. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2014) Smart cities and the sociology of expectations. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2013) Splintering Urbanism by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2013) Dynamics of Social Practice by Elizabeth Shove and Matt Watson. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book chapter: (2013) Avoiding Black Swans. In L. Rougé, C. Gay, Landriève, A. Lefranc-Morin, C. Nicolas (Ed) Rehabilitating the Peri-Urban. Paris, Mobile Lives Forum
Climate change, social norms and cultures of mobility
Book: (2022) Low-Carbon Birding (see section Climate & Ornithology in this website)
Presentation (invited speaker): (2020) ‘Climate change, flying and biodiversity conservation’. Masters course on Biodiversity Conservation, University of Oxford.
Presentation (invited speaker): (2015) ‘Waiting for Catastrophe: Uncertainty, climate change and the tourist city’. Presentation at the LSE Cities workshop ‘Moving in and around the city’. London School of Economics, London, 12 May 2015.
Article: (2018) Are we addicted to high-carbon ornithology? Editorial of British Birds, April 2018.
Article: (2015) Radical mitigation: a new priority in the mobilities agenda? Mobile Lives Forum.
Report: (2008) Tourists’ understanding of climate change in Mediterranean seaside resorts. Valencia Tourist Board.
Event: Caletrío, J. Urry, J. et al. (2011) Workshop on Emerging Middle Classes and Low-Carbon Mobilities. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, February (funded by the British Academy).
Modelling and climate policy
Book chapter: (2026) Electric cars and modelling: the closing of policy imagination? In Kaufmann, V. and Sheller, M. (Eds.) Navigating Detours in the Mobility Transition. London: Routledge.
Migration
Special issue in academic journal: (2011) Mobilities and Forced Migration. Mobilities 6 (3) (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason)
Published also in book format by Routledge in 2013: Mobilities and Forced Migration.
Article: (2011) Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration, Special Issue Mobilities 6 (3): 301-316 (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason).
Book review: (2015) Displaced lives, Mobile Lives Forum.
Event: Caletrío, J. and Mason, V. (2010) Panel on Forced Migration and (Im)Mobilities in the Middle East. World Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, July.
Event: Caletrío, J. (2010) Seminar on The Limits of Hospitality. Guest speaker: Heidrun Friesse. Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster, May.
Event: Caletrío, J., Gill, N., and Mason, V. (2009) Conference on Forced Migration and Mobilities Research. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, December.
Event: Caletrío, J. and Tzanelli, R. (2007) Conference on Cosmopolitan Paradoxes: Migration and Emergent Systems of Transnational Rights. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, May.
Tourism
Article: (2020) Ecotourism: Is my flying saving the planet? Mobile Lives Forum.
Review essay: (2019) Review essay on The Tourist Gaze. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2018) Are we addicted to high-carbon ornithology? Editorial of British Birds, April 2018.
Article: (2018) The ‘flying less’ movement : why are some people flying less and what is their message? Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2012) Simple Living and Tourism in Times of ‘Austerity’. Current Issues in Tourism 15 (3): 275-279.
Article: (2011) Tourism, Landscape Change and Critical Thresholds. Annals of Tourism Research 38 (1): 313-316.
Article: (2011) ‘De veraneo en la playa‘: pertencimento e o familiar no turismo de massa no Mediterrâneo. Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) 24 (47) January/June.
Book chapter: (2009) ‘Veraneo en la playa’: Belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism. In Pau Obrador, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou (Eds). Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities. Ashgate, 2009.
Article: (2009) Perceptions and reality: The role of research and education (article about how social imaginaries shape climate research and action). In Jafar Jafari and Eduardo Fayos-Solà (eds). Climate Change and Tourism: Reality and Fiction. World Tourism Organization.
Book review: (2007) Book review De la Fonda a L’Hotel by Joan Carles Cirer. Annals of Tourism Research, 34 (4): 1104–1106.
Presentation: (2009) Climate Change, Tourism and Sense of Place in Mediterranean Seaside Resorts. Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.
Event: Caletrío, J. (2006) Conference on ‘Emerging Tourism Futures’. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, July.
Local economic development
Article: Nácher, J.M., Caletrío, J. (1998) El turismo como factor de desarrollo local en el Alto Maestrazgo: luces y sombras. Actas de ‘Los retos de Teruel. Jornadas sobre cambio social y económico‘.
Article: Nácher, J.M., Caletrío, J. (1999) Producción de turismo: un análisis institucionalista para el caso de Teruel. Cuadernos aragoneses de economía, Vol. 9 (1): 217-226.
Mobility theories & cultures
Theories
Article: (2017) Bauman on mobility. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2016) Mobilities paradigm. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2015) Braudel, a mobilities scholar avant la lettre? Mobile Lives Forum
Special issue in academic journal: (2014) Moving Boundaries in Mobilities Research. Sociologica (with Giuliana Mandich).
Article: (2013) Urry. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2013) Capitalism and collective action in the work of John Urry (I). Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2013) Capitalism and collective action in the work of John Urry (II). Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2012) On the Move by Tim Cresswell. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2012) Mobilites by John Urry. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article review: (2012) The New Mobilities Paradigm by Mimi Sheller and John Urry, article review. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2012) Questions of Travel by Karen Kaplan. Mobile Lives Forum.
Cultures
A mobilities approach highlights how mobility systems brought about profound changes in the experience of time and space. The railway, the telegraph, the postal system, flying, to name but a few, fundamentally changed everyday life and inaugurated a historical phase where human life became inextricably entangled with, and dependent upon, machines. Some of the articles and book reviews below explore these changes in social and cultural life underpinned by transport and communication technologies.
Book chapter in Italian: (2019) ‘Slow is beutiful. O no? John Berger sull’andare in moto’. In John Berger. Sulla motocicletta. A cura di Maria Nadotti. Piccola Biblioteca. Neri Pozza.
Article: (2015) Mobile lives, screens and vision (I). Mobile Lives Forum
Article: (2015) Mobile lives, screens and vision (II). Mobile Lives Forum
Article: (2014) Celebrating the Art of the London Underground. Mobile Lives Forum
Article: (2014) Slow is beautiful. Or is it? John Berger on riding a bike. Mobile Lives Forum
Article: (2014) Detroit : Ruin of a City. Mobile Lives Forum
Book review: (2014) Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2013) Quotidian rituals in an age of mobility. Mobile Lives Forum.
Article: (2013) Mobile Urbanisms. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2013) The Railway Journey by Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Mobile Lives Forum.
Book review: (2012) Tracking Modernity by Marian Aguiar. Mobile Lives Forum.
