Intergenerational Mobilities: Relationality, Age and Lifecourse

ISBN-13: 9780367668075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Lesley Murray; Susan Robertson

Opis

This book explores the ways in which age, as a relational concept, is constructed and played out in mobile urban space. With studies of ageing and mobility often focusing on discrete age groups, most notably children and older people, this study seeks to fill a gap in existing literature by exploring mobility in relation to the lifecourse and

Spis treści

1. Introduction: conceptualising intergenerational mobilities

Lesley Murray

2. Journey to the ‘undiscovered country’ – considering the geographies, mobilities, and rhythms of growing up, growing old, and moving on

Elaine Stratford

3. Moving between generations? The role of familial inter-generational relations in older people’s mobility

Rose Gilroy, Katia Attuyer, Mark Bevan, Karen Croucher, Rebecca Tunstall

4. Breaking intergenerational transmissions of poverty and spaces for rehabilitation from the perspectives of street-connected girls in Nairobi

Vicky Johnson

5. Tales of the Map of My Mobile Life: Intergenerational Computer-Mediated Communication between Older People and Fieldworkers in their Early Adulthood

Sergio Sayago, Valeria Righi, Susan M. Ferreira, Andrea Rosales and Josep Blat

6. Digital Inclusion and Public Space: The Effect of Mobile Phones on Intergenerational Awareness and Connection

Dave Harley

7. Talking about my Generation: Emigration and ‘Sense of Generation’ among Highly Skilled Young Italians in Paris.

Hadrien Dubucs, Thomas Pfirsch, Camille Schmoll

8. Sharing mobile space across the lifecourse

Lesley Murray and Susan Robertson

9. Residential relocation between contrasting mobility cultures as key events during the lifecourse

Thomas Klinger

10. Young people’s representations and experiences of mobile urban spaces: the case of Lawrence Weston in Bristol 

Miriam Ricci

11. Reliance Mobilities

Christian E. Fisker

12. The global urban space: Older age and Filipinos as global workers

Karel Kalaw

13. Conclusion

Susan Robertson

O autorze

Lesley Murray is Principal Lecturer in Social Science in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, UK.

Susan Robertson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton, UK.