Call for papers “Building Transport History Ontologies”
Extended deadline 5 October 2020

The Journal of Transport History is launching this Call for Papers devoted to further developing the ontology of Transport History.

We argued how, in past decades, transport history changed its foci, approaches and research areas, opening up new investigation avenues and taking advantage of the work done in the fields of cultural, global, urban history, as well as history of technology and business studies.

However, we are still missing an ontology of transport history, that is, (i) why transport and mobility discourses “are irreducible to other social or technological processes” and (ii) what are its own ontological characteristics?

In this vein, The Journal of Transport History is launching this Call for Papers devoted to further developing the ontology of Transport History. The papers can have any format or length (between 2 and 8 thousand words) and take on innovative analytical approaches.

The papers collected for this CfP, which will be published in the JTH, will eventually – with the authors’ agreement – be used as the foundation for a future Handbook of Transport History, which may take the form of a print volume or an on-line depository.

For more information, please see the recent editorial from the journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022526620927592

The papers can have any format or length (between 2 and 8 thousand words) and take on innovative analytical approaches. Papers will be subject to a double blind review process.

Abstracts are welcome until 30 August 2020 extended deadline 5 October 2020, to be sent to JTH Editor-in-chief Massimo Moraglio jth.editor@gmail.com