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To Practice Mobility - On a Small Scale

Author(s) -

Ida Wentzel Winther

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

culture unbound journal of current cultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256

H-Index - 7

ISSN - 2000-1525

DOI - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572215

Subject(s) - embodied cognition , feeling , ethnography , coping (psychology) , focus (optics) , psychology , scale (ratio) , space (punctuation) , sociology , social psychology , aesthetics , computer science , geography , psychotherapist , cartography , art , artificial intelligence , physics , anthropology , optics , operating system

Children's perspectives are practically absent in new mobility studies. In this article, I wish to describe and analyse how a number of children handle having to move between homes, parents and siblings, and how they practically, emotionally and socially navigate in this changeable landscape. My aim is to explore mobility as an embodied and emotional practice in which children employ different strategies. I focus on bodily micropractices, routines and coping strategies, the intermediate space that occurs on their continual journeys, and the feeling of being dispensable. It is an ethnographic exploration of how mobile and domestic lives are intertwined - on a small scale

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