Short Abstract

This workshop explores how intersecting temporalities shape mobility and political life. It asks how waiting, acceleration, repetition, and rupture are felt, materialized, and contested –, and what forms of agency, solidarity, refusal, or resignation emerge when times collide.

Long Abstract

Mobility does not unfold in a single, linear time. It is shaped by intersecting temporalities: bureaucratic delays, accelerated journeys, suspended futures, cyclical routines, memories of past movements, and anticipations of what may come. Building on recent debates on "mobile temporalities", this workshop examines how mobility produces, disrupts, and reconfigures temporal orders – and how such temporalities, in turn, enable, constrain, or redirect movement. Rather than treating time primarily as a mechanism of state control, we explore temporalities as relational, contested, and politically productive. We are interested in moments when different temporal regimes collide; when administrative schedules encounter embodied urgency; when labour rhythms conflict with family obligations; when infrastructures accelerate some movements while immobilizing others; or when religious, ecological, intergenerational, and political temporalities unsettle linear narratives of progress, integration, return, or citizenship.

The workshop brings the temporal dimensions of mobility into dialogue with the conference themes of affects, materialities, and politics. How are waiting, acceleration, repetition, interruption, and uncertainty lived and felt? Through which bodies, documents, technologies, infrastructures, and environments are temporalities made durable or transformed? What forms of political agency, solidarity, refusal, resignation, or hope emerge from temporal disjunctures?

We invite ethnographically grounded and theoretically ambitious contributions on migration, displacement, circulation, commuting, pilgrimage, tourism, labour mobility, or other forms of movement and immobility. Together, the papers will examine how time moves through mobility and how mobility reshapes political horizons.