Full Description
This
interdisciplinary edited collection will challenge the idea of the static
family that can be 'broken', and instead think of family as always 'on the
move', both conceptually and in practice. This dual approach to family is the unique
contribution of the book, which
offers new perspectives on the sociology and geography of the family, drawn
together by the shared lens of family mobilities. As such it brings together
insights from the diverse work of interdisciplinary academics working alone and
collaboratively on different aspects of family lives and relationships.
The central argument of the book is
that the concept of family is always in motion: a disruption in one aspect of
family relations, for example, the ending of the intimate relationship between
parents, is part of the ongoing project of family. In addition, families are
made through mobility and immobility in relation to people, communications,
objects and ideas. Contributions from a range of academics across disciplines consider
changes in family practices and the ways in which they are produced through
motion.
This book
seeks to understand families as always in motion; changing, adapting and
re-routed. Integral to this discussion is the spatiality and temporality of family,
that families are produced in different times and spaces. Families are also
made through interactions with material things, including non-human living
things and through the emotional ties and responses that determine their form
and practices.
Contents
1. Introduction; Lesley Murray, Liz McDonnell, Katie Walsh, Nuno Ferreira, and Tamsin Hinton-Smith Section 1: Moving Through Separation and Connection
2. Travelling Feelings: Narratives of Sustaining Love in Two Comparative Cultural Case Studies of Fathering During Family Separations; Alexandra Macht
3. 'Clinging on': Prison and the Changing Landscape of the Family; Marie Hutton
4. 'Living Together Apart' as Families in Transition; Liz Mcdonnell, Lesley Murray, Tamsin Hinton-Smith and Nuno Ferreira
5. 'The Sense of Space' of Children Living in Stepfamilies in Belgium; Laura Merla and Bérengère Nobels
Section 2: Uneven Motions and Resistance
6. The Roles of ICTs in Sustaining the Mobilities of Transnational Families; Sondra Cuban
7. Life Course Transitions as Liminal Zones; Bella Marckmann
8. Jumping Through Hoops: Families' Experiences of Pre-Birth Child Protection; Ariane Critchley
9. Families and Flow: The Temporalities of Everyday Family Practices; Clare Holdsworth
Section 3: Traces and Potentialities
10. Losing A Father in a Demolished Ex-Industrial Landscape: A Researcher's Emotional Geography; Lisa Taylor
11. Children in Motion: Doing Family Across Two Households; Rakel Berman
12. Families on-Foot: Assembling Motherhood and Childhood Through Care and Play; Susannah Clement
13. Reconciling Past Family Disruption and Transitional Flux into the Present: Foster Care-Experienced Youths' Parenting Narratives; Caroline Cresswell
14. Moving to be a Family: The Case of Italian Women in Morocco; Maria Giovanna Cassa
