Intergenerational Mobilities ─ Relationality, Age and Lifecourse

Drawing from work on mobilities and geographies of the lifecourse this collection is concerned with the ways in which age, as a relational concept, is constructed and played out in mobile urban space. With studies of ageing and mobility often focusing on discrete age groups, most notably children and older people, this study seeks to fill a gap in existing literature by exploring mobility in relation to the lifecourse and generation looking not only at the margins. Whilst some generations are increasingly mobile, others are less so and this disparity in mobility opportunity is relational as age is relational. This book addresses gaps in knowledge in relational geographies of ageing, whilst contributing to literature on mobility and transport, in particular the burgeoning field of mobility (in)justice. Here mobility is considered in its broadest sense, for example in relation to the movement or lack of movement of bodies and to computer-mediated intergenerational communications. Through focusing on urban mobile spaces, from very local spaces of medical care to global spaces of migration that are the context for intergenerational mobilities, this collection explores these interdependencies and considers ways in which intergenerational mobilities are conceptualized and researched.

Lesley Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, UK. Lesley previously worked as a transport researcher/strategic planner in London government, focusing primarily on the mobility needs of marginalised groups. She is a trans-disciplinary researcher whose interests centre on the social and cultural aspects of mobilities, and has written on gendered mobilities, childrena€?s mobilities and mobile and visual methodologies and methods. Sue Robertson studied architecture at the Universities of Bath and Westminster and obtained a research masters in Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. Her practice work involves architectural projects with Denys Lasdun and in her own practice. She is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art Design and Media at the University of Brighton leading the MA in Architectural and Urban Studies. Suea€?s research is concerned with the relationship between architecture and corporeal mobilities.