Vol. 11 No. 11 (2025): Antropologia lokomocji i transportu

The eleventh issue of Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia explores relationships between culture and technology in the context of locomotion and transport, focusing on their impact on social imaginaries and cultural practices. Rather than treating locomotion and transport merely as technical or infrastructural solutions, the issue approaches them as phenomena that actively shape imaginaries, embodied experience, and forms of social life. This perspective has prompted contributors to examine the cultural, symbolic, affective, and bodily dimensions of technologically assisted movement, with particular attention to ethnographic inquiry. The articles demonstrate how transport infrastructure and modes of locomotion operate as carriers of ideologies and metaphors—such as modernity and tradition, freedom and constraint, progress and limitation—through which understandings of space, identity, and social relations are produced. Drawing on the anthropological mobility turn, the collected texts conceptualise locomotion and transport as an entanglement of technologies, narratives, practices, and affects, analysed through approaches including ethnography, autoethnography, disability studies, the anthropology of the senses, and discourse analysis.

Keywords: transport,locomotion, mobility studies, technography, ethnography, imagineering, invasive species, critical mobility studies, container, containerization, logistics, mobility, non-humans, transport, Wasmannia auropunctata, more-than-human, container ship, liminality, maritime infrastructure, seafarers’ daily life, shipboard space, cultural landscape, change, Polish countryside, contemporary times, Affectivity, Embodied cognition, Urban mobility, Multisensory ethnography, Sensory experience of the city, 15-Minute City, cargo bikes, practice theory, sustainable mobility, dispositive, patchy Anthropocene, automobility, blindness, disability, guide dog, mobility, white cane, visual impairment, hitchhiking, travelling, PRL (People’s Republic of Poland), mobility practices, cultural changes, Thor Heyerdahl, Historiography of science, Reception history, Polynesia, Polynesian problem, Rapa Nui (Easter Island),railway culture, railway enthusiasts (denshaotaku), Japan Railways, otaku, The National Museum of Denmark, Museum Worminanum, Kunstkammer, Collectors and collections from the Americas,imagineering, mobility studies, anthropology of transport, technology and society, socio-cultural imaginaries, conference, anthropology of plants, more-then-human anthropology