Children's Mobilities

This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of children's 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 science more generally, tends to immobilize children's studies; and in children's mobility studies has mainly focused on the 'independent' and corporeal travel of children. The book situates children's mobilities in wider contexts, offering an interdisciplinary and critical perspective throughout and drawing on scholarship at the confluence of childhood and mobilities and a range of research to offer new insights that inform the field of mobilities and studies of childhood. In this way, the book aims at widening the perspective on children's mobility towards the inclusion of diverse age groups and of the manifold forms of mobilities that are part of children's lives, from an interdependent and relational point of view.

Critically explores contemporary trends in children's mobilities from an interdisciplinary perspective Looks at the role of children's mobilities in creating broader patterns of mobilities Points out possible ways in which the mobilities perspective can contribute to the understanding of children's lives as interdependent

Autorentext
Lesley Murray is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Brighton, whose research centres on the gendered and generational aspects of mobilities. She has written extensively in the field of mobilities, including co-editing books on mobile methodologies, representing mobilities, generational mobilities and families.
Susana R. Cortés-Morales is an anthropologist whose work has been focused on the study of childhood and mobilities. She has conducted research in Chile and the United Kingdom, and currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds, School of Education, in the project Fair Shares and Families.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Relational, Interdependent, Imagined Mobilities.- Chapter 2: Conceptualising Children's Mobilities.- Chapter 3: Researching Children's Mobilities.- Chapter 4: Zooming In, Zooming Out: The Forms and Scales of Children's Mobilities.- Chapter 5: Children's Mobilities in Time.- Chapter 6: Children's Imagined Mobilities.- Chapter 7: Stagings, Interdependencies and Co-Mobilities.- Chapter 8: Children's Mobile Relationalities.