Correction to: Children’s Mobilities

Abstract

This chapter discusses the features of children’s imagined mobilities and the interdependence of the ‘real’ and imagined. Mobilities are represented through a range of media, in film, in literature, in television and in the visual arts, in ways that produce discourses of mobility and everyday mobile practices (Cresswell 2006). For children, these representations are particularly pertinent in co-producing notions of childhood and mobility. This chapter focuses on a number of key examples of such representations in seeking to understand these interdependencies. We look at the historic development of childhood through children’s literature and the ways in which children are portrayed as moving subjects. Although a key aspect in distinguishing the interdependencies of mobilities, this is often neglected. It could be said that the imagination is more pertinent to children’s rather than others’ mobilities, as children are not burdened by the baggage of everyday life—we discuss this debate.