Family and Intimate Mobilities [electronic resource] /
Holdsworth, C.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Theorising Mobilities and Family Practices; 3 Intimate Mobilities: Moving out, Moving in and Moving on; 4 Families on the Move I: Moving House and Commuting; 5 Families on the Move II: Nomadic, Non-Linear and Children's Mobilities; 6 Intimate Spaces; 7 Conclusion: Decentring Family and Intimate Mobilities; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Social policy.
Human geography.
Psychology.
Sociology.
Social groups.
Family.
Family.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Human Geography.
Popular Science in Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.