Family and Intimate Mobilities

by C. Holdsworth

Overview

This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230594432
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/05/2013
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

CLARE HOLDSWORTH is Professor of Social Geography, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, Keele University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Theorising Mobilities and Family Practices Intimate Mobilities: Moving out, Moving in and Moving on Families on the Move I: Moving House and Commuting Families on the Move II: Children's, Nomadic and Non-Linear Mobilities Intimate Spaces Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"This book opens up space where a number of empirical cases can be thought of, reconceptualised and then inform new research directions ... a must read book for those working in this field and seeking to holistically reframe family mobilities" - Sociological Review

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