Movement: Materiality of Mobilities

Abstract

In this chapter, I have sought to compress time and space through the study of movement patterns connected to children stories and images over time. Walking, and moving through the city with children, I have come to know the complicated negotiation children perform in these spaces. I have, through children’s child–city–movement maps, stories and photographs, acknowledged human entanglement in the actions of the materials and matters of our non-human world. By applying Karen Barad’s tools of intra-action, I trace the flow of materials through landscapes, as means for recording the ongoing fluidity and dynamics of objects, theorizing notions of enmeshment and creative entanglement and the materiality of mobilities. I contrast this deeply complex work by tracing to begin with the very linear traditional research on children’s independent mobility in cities that has been most common in the field of child’s geographies.