Children's mobilities : interdependent, imagined, relational / Lesley Murray, Susana Cortés-Morales.

This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of childrens mobilities by focusing on its interdependent, imagined and relational aspects. In doing so, it challenges existing literature, which, in mobilities studies, tends to overlook the mobilities of marginalised social groups; in social s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors: Murray, Lesley, 1966- (Author), Cortés-Morales, Susana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Relational, Interdependent, Imagined Mobilities; References; 2 Conceptualising Children's Mobilities; Introduction; Towards a Mobilisation of Childhood; Being Mobile, Being Risky and at Risk; Disrupting Children's Agency; The Concept of 'Independent Mobility'; Towards a Mobilities Approach to Childhood; Mobility Justice and Rights to Mobility; Conclusion-From Independent to Interdependent and Relational Mobilities; References; 3 Researching Children's Mobilities; Mobilities Studies: Researching Lives 'On the Move'
  • Methodological Approaches to Children's MobilitiesResearching Independent Mobility; Towards Researching Children's Interdependent Mobilities; Researching Mobile Lives (Including Children); Methods for Including Children in Research; Decentring the (Everyday Physical Travel of the School-Aged) Child?; Researching Children's Mobile Imaginations; Conclusion-Towards Deliberative Research on Children's Mobilities; References; 4 Zooming In, Zooming Out: The Forms and Scales of Children's Mobilities; Introduction; Spaces, Places and Scales of Children's Mobilities.
  • The Micro-Scales of Children's MobilitiesZooming to In-Between Mobile Spaces; The Car; Between Home and ... Moving Between Places; School; Streets; Zooming Right Out-Away from Home; Conclusion-Zooming In and Out; References; 5 Children's Mobilities in Time; Introduction; Biographical and Lifecourse Mobilities; Biographies of Childhoods; Taking the Longer View-Back and Forward; Children's Mobility Histories; Looking Forward to Look Back: Generational Approaches; Children's Interdependent Temporalities; Interdependent Temporal Rhythms; Uneven Temporalities; Conclusion; References.
  • 6 Children's Imagined MobilitiesIntroduction; Bringing the Imagination to Mobilities: Present, Past and Future; Producing the Mobile Imaginary and Mobility Imaginations; Fictional Stories; Globalised Imaginaries; Productive and Agentive Imaginaries and Imagined Mobilities; Conclusion; References; 7 Stagings, Interdependencies and Co-mobilities; Introduction; Being Staged-Family, School and Policy; Families and Homes; School and Other Educational Institutions; Policies; Being Staged: Sleep, Weather and Pollution; Mobile Stagings: Materialities, Mobile Technologies and Co-mobilities.
  • Materialities: Wheeling and WheelchairsMobile Artefacts-Car Seats, Reins and Pushchairs; Co-mobilities: Virtual, Communicative, Generational and Non-human; Virtual and Communicative Co-mobilities; Moving Interdependently Across Generations; Conclusion; References; 8 Children's Mobile Relationalities; References; References.