Children's Mobilities Interdependent, Imagined, Relational
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 mobilit
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Children’s Mobilities
Lesley Murray · Susana Cortés-Morales
Children’s Mobilities Interdependent, Imagined, Relational
Lesley Murray School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, UK
Susana Cortés-Morales School of Education University of Leeds Leeds, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-52113-2 ISBN 978-1-137-52114-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52114-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019931940 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019, corrected publication 2019 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: Lesley Murray This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
Preface
Writing this book has involved quite a few personal examples of relational interdependent and imagined mobilities. To begin with, we wrote the whole book being (at least) 280 miles separated from each other, with intermittent physical and virtual communication in between— which was not always exempt from problems. Having the time and space to write many times involved separating ourselves from our children, which we did while they were at school, nursery, looked after by family or friends, out and about with their friends or sitting in the same room while our attention was elsewhere. While working on the last bits of the book, one of us was on holidays in the Highlands, Scotland. We agreed on a Skype meeting one evening, which was not possible because a traffic accident stopped her from getting from the Cairngorms to her holiday house. While on the car, she desperately tried to contact the other one through her mobi
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