The first sub-theme, focuses on the reconfiguration of relationships between urban and rural spaces, which are less and less clearly distinct or distinguishable from each other, as they are increasingly subject to multidirectional and overlapped movements, unfolding over different timeframes, from everyday life to permanent migration to and from rural areas

The second sub-theme will invite contributions addressing ecological and environmental aspects that generate internal and international mobility processes, particularly concerning rural systems. This theme involves how changing climate conditions create crises and opportunities that derive from global warming and related dynamics, as well as the way in which environmental actors (animals, plants, habitats, etc.) change in space and time due to human-induced or natural processes.

The third sub-theme, provides space for contributions focusing on the economic aspects connected to rural systems, which may lead either to the marginalization of the local scale or to the activation of interests by major global actors.

The fourth sub-theme,  focuses on forms of mobility related to rural systems that stem from political, military, economic, and social conflicts, which in turn generate various migratory flows.

The fifth sub-theme, welcomes contributions focusing more generally on the various forms that mobility can take within different systems in different regions of the world. The concept of mobility entails a transformation within or of space, and may also refer to a change over time; therefore, we also welcome proposals that address the diachronic dimension of mobility in the phenomena under consideration.