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This theme is open to the widest possible interpretation and is assumed to address the concerns of many disciplines and departments while providing a frame for thinking across or even bypassing entrenched or established modes of thinking. It could include the following concerns:
- The transportation of merchandise for the purpose of trade, commerce, commercialism, deals and markets, ships and shipping, movement and markets
- The buying and selling or exchange of goods for profit: bargaining, barter, business
- Histories, theories and representations/figurations of trade, exchange, profiteering and commerce
- Illicit trade, wheeling and dealing, smuggling, steeling and stealth, intersectional bias, corruption and punishment, influence peddling
- The passing of persons or of goods and vehicles or vessels, along a road, railway, canal, or other route of transportation; traffic infrastructures, formal and informal, legitimate and illegal
- The passage of people and goods via routes and roadways, the organisation and flow of ‘traffic’
- Traffic blocks and blockages, flows and conduits, jams and bottlenecks
- Technologies of traffic, digital and data, AI and the exchange of information and the transfer/tracking/trading of stuff
- The traffic in images, image exchange, mediation and meaning
- The trade/traffic in people, human trafficking, labour and slavery, sexual exploitation and crime, borders and controls, traffic of organs and vital resources
- The exchange/traffic in/of women, kinship and kidnap, social systems and barter