Time : 2019/05/24 Fri. 15:00
Place : #1106, New Millennium Hall, Konkuk University
David Bissell is “Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He combines qualitative research on embodied practices with social theory to explore the social, political and ethical consequences of mobile lives. He is co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (2011) and the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014). He is Managing Editor of Social & Cultural Geography and is on the editorial boards of Mobilities, GeoHumanities, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, and Australian Humanities Review.”
David Bissell published the original English version of his book, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities in 2019 (MIT Press). This book was selected as one of the publication projects in the Academy of Mobility Humanities, AMH and it was translated into Korean this year. The Korean translation, <통근하는 삶-통근은 어떻게 도시를 변화시키는가> was published on February 28, 2019 by the publishing company, LP with the hard work of the two translators, Gwanghyung Park and Heejin Jeon.
Prof. Bissell’s lecture mainly deals with commuting and how it affects people in a contemporary society as well as transforms the cities we are living in. According to David Bissell, commuting is not a boring and unproductive part of our daily routines but something that has major impact on our lives. Commuting transforms the texture of our society, shaping the urban lives, and more importantly who we are.