Nurturing Mobilities: Family Travel in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780367520939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 138 str.

Claire Maxwell; Miri Yemini; Katrine Mygind Bach

Opis

Nurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today – and what happens when they do. Vitally, it examines the two biggest contemporary issues in global mobility: COVID-19, and climate change.

Spis treści

1. Introduction;  2. Establishing the field: why we travel and why it matters;  3. Thinking with travel;  4. Parents talking about family travel;  5. Travel as integral to class-making practices;  6. Global middle class families: the children as active and seasoned globe trotters;  7. Young people discuss travel;  8. Alternative modes of family travel: new articulations of global citizenship education;  9. From tourist gaze to carbon gaze: travelling in a time of climate concerns;  10. Conclusion;  Commentary: final reflections on nurturing mobilities