It is a commonly-voiced opinion that opportunities for mobility
undermine family in modern industrialized societies. Family and
Intimate Mobilities challenges this assumption. Drawing on
theoretical developments in mobilities, family practices and
personal life and empirical studies of both individuals and
families on the move, the book develops a more integrated approach
to family mobility. This account considers how individual mobility
over the life course is bound up with the formation and dissolving
of intimate mobilities as well as how collective forms of mobility,
from moving house, going on holiday and the school run, also
sustain family life. The book considers how mobility is not just
about bringing people together but how it also allows for time
apart. Yet not all mobility is realized or chosen, and intimate
mobilities can either be forced or entered into out of sense of
obligation. In rejecting the assumption that mobility necessarily
undermines family life, the book also resists any attempt to
provide a grand narrative of social change of family mobility, but
foregrounds the diversity of family practices and mobility.
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