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Gender, childhood(s) and (im)mobilities

Abstract:: Studies on childhood (im)mobilities have not always incorporated a critical and/or intersectional lens in their theoretical underpinnings, explorations and/or methodological inquiry. In many cases, studies limit understandings of mobility to so-called ‘able-bodied’ corporeal notions and an age-centric developmental conceptualization of the child. Informed by interdisciplinary scholarship on childhood(s), mobilities, gender studies, disability and ableism studies, this chapter suggests a shift in our readings of childhood (im)mobilities. Drawing from our ongoing work, we argue for an exploration of childhood (im)mobility practices as interdependent relationalities differentially embedded and embodied in aged, gendered, racialized and dis(abled) socio-material processes. In arguing to incorporate critical theoretical conceptions and methodologies to achieve grounded understandings of childhood (im)mobilities, we start leaning into more possibilities including (micro)practices that are affective, interdependent, tactical and relational and involve (im)mobilities beyond the body of the mobile child.

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APA Style

Alarasi, H., & Buliung, R. (2024). Gender, childhood(s) and (im)mobilities. In V. Preston, S. McLafferty, M. Maciejewska, & B. Yeoh (Eds.), Handbook of Gender and Mobilities (1st ed., pp. 96–109). Edward Elgar Publishing.

MLA Style

Alarasi, H, and R Buliung. “Gender, Childhood(s) and (Im)Mobilities.” Handbook of Gender and Mobilities, edited by V Preston et al., 1st ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, pp. 96–109. International Handbooks on Gender Series.

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Alarasi, H, and R Buliung. 2024. “Gender, Childhood(s) and (Im)Mobilities.” In Handbook of Gender and Mobilities, 1st ed., edited by V Preston, S McLafferty, M Maciejewska, and B Yeoh. International Handbooks on Gender Series. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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+ Alarasi, H More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: SOGE
Sub department:: Transport Studies Unit
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0002-5767-5290

+ Buliung, R More by this author

Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0003-4748-3321

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Role:: Editor
ORCID:: 0000-0002-4370-285X

+ McLafferty, S

Role:: Editor
ORCID:: 0000-0001-8413-7562

+ Maciejewska, M

Role:: Editor
ORCID:: 0000-0003-4368-0803

Role:: Editor
ORCID:: 0000-0002-0240-3175

Publisher:: Edward Elgar Publishing
Host title:: Handbook of Gender and Mobilities
Pages:: 96–109
Chapter number:: 8
Series:: International Handbooks on Gender series
Place of publication:: Cheltenham
Publication date:: 2024-12-10
Edition:: 1
DOI:: 10.4337/9781035300860.00015
EISBN:: 9781035300860
ISBN:: 9781035300853

Language:: English
Keywords:: childhood

mobility

gender

disability

intersectionality
Subtype:: Chapter
Pubs id:: 2300055
Local pid:: pubs:2300055
Deposit date:: 2025-10-16
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_2cc0671561e94171b7c7c1923d1c2728

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Copyright date:: 2024
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