Beschreibung:
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.
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