Nurturing Mobilities

<p><em>Nurturing Mobilities</em> employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today – and what happens when they do. The authors argue that an imperative to ‘think with mobility’ and to ‘aspire to be mobile’ shapes identities futures and family practices. </p><p>Drawing on data that examines family travel practices – typically short-term trips – across the working- middle- and globally mobile middle-classes <i>Nurturing Mobilities</i> describes how families travel why they travel and the role young family members play in curating family travel. Vitally it examines the two biggest contemporary issues in global mobility: COVID-19 and climate change. How has COVID-19 changed travel motivations in a world beset by lockdowns and diminished finances? How are concerns around climate change and engagements with global citizenship education changing family travel practices?</p><p>Nurturing Mobilities illuminates new ways in which social class divergence is forged through movements across borders. The authors’ theoretically inter-disciplinary approach delivers a full analysis of the apparently divergent processes that differentiate family travel along social class lines yet also allow travel to play a core role in social mobility. This book is a vital resource for scholars and students studying mobility globalisation social class and climate change engagement.</p>