John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University, and one of the founding editors of the Routledge journal Mobilities. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Founding Academician for the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and was Chair of the Sociology RAE Panel for five years between 1996 and 2001. He has published over 40 books and special issues of journals, including Sociology beyond Societies (2000), The Tourist Gaze (2002), Global Complexity (2003), Performing Tourist Places (2004), Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006), Mobilities (2007), Aeromobilities (2009), and After the Car (2009). He is currently writing Mobile Lives, co-editing a journal special issue on Global Heating and co-editing a book on Mobile Methods.
For over 25 years now he has been an active and renowned researcher, and he is a stellar name in the field of sociology.
Jonas Larsen is a lecturer in space, place, mobility and urban studies in the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests include cultural and social geography, mobility, travel and tourism. He has published three books: Tourism, Performance and the Everyday: Consuming the Orient (2009), Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006), and Performing Tourist Places (2004).
