Abstract
Children’s imagined mobilities are determined by a range of interactions, not least through engagement with fictional stories in which childhood itself is imagined, written and re-written, interpreted and re-interpreted. Too often children’s imagined mobilities are overlooked in favour of more instrumental approaches to their mobilities. Drawing from a spatialised literary tradition and a growing focus on literature in mobility studies, this article poses the possibility that imagined mobilities extend the agency of children in an ‘impossible’ adultist world.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 572-584 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Mobilities |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 May 2017 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities on 31/05/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17450101.2017.1331006Keywords
- Children
- literature
- mobilities
- agency
- psychogeography
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Lesley Murray
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Ex
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group
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