Nurturing Mobilities

"This is a highly innovative book, which explores the nature and impact of family travel, focussing particularly on how it influences the identities and ‘future-making projects’ of both families and individuals. Drawing on data from parents and young people, and including the perspectives of those who reject travel (for environmental reasons) as well as those who travel a lot, the book engages with important debates that cut across several disciplines – including the extent to which such practices contribute to social differentiation, how mobility is conceptualised, and the role of travel within broader understandings of parenting. It is also international in its orientation, and will thus be of significant interest to researchers in many different national contexts." Rachel Brooks FAcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

"This is a thought-provoking book on how mobility shapes individuals. By zooming into the experiences of family travel, the book offers engaging accounts of the links between the ideas of mobility and social class. Highly recommended for sociologists of education and social scientists more broadly." Maia Chankseliani, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford, UK

"Maxwell, Yemini and Bach offer a rigorous and thoughtful journey into some of the uncharted aspects of mobility, by exploring family travel and its nuanced links with parenting, family-making practices, strategies of capital accumulation and class differentiations." Jason Beech, Senior Lecturer in Education Policy, Monash University, Australia