Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course

Elaine Stratford works at the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she is a research professor at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, adjunct professorial fellow with the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, and an affiliate of the Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences in the School of Technology, Environment and Design.

"This book makes an important contribution to the discipline of geography. I think what this book reveals so well is the power of a mobilities perspective to some of the central concerns of the discipline of geography. How does a sense of place emerge? How do we conduct ourselves? How do our preoccupations and passions change through time and over the lifecourse? Of course many geographers have responded these questions in many different ways. But rarely have they done so through the lens of mobility and rhythm, and to my mind, few so powerfully as this book." - Dr David Bissell, The Australian National University"Stratford’s arguments draw on a range of examples from media pieces, art installations, books, films, and autoethnography. The multidisciplinary nature of the empirical examples also gives the book an incredible richness. This striking, remarkable book has a great deal to offer diverse readers across mobility studies, emotional geography and life-course geographies, as well as, more broadly, a wide range of social policy and planning areas." - Australian Geographer, Susannah Clement, University of Wollongong"An ambitious work that is theoretically expansive and intellectually generative. Ample in scope – covering the life-course from conception to death – Stratford’s book explores the spaces, places, movements, and rhythms throughout the lifecourse using various examples of her research and her experiences in the field.… For cultural geographers, Stratford’s work can serve as a basis for generating ideas." Hector Agredano (2016), Journal of Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/08873631.2016.1232538

• 1. Adventures in the Interval 2. Shifting Places of Origin 3. Fluid Terrain 4. Grind and Trace 5. Encountering the Circle Line 6. Move It or Lose It 7. The Undiscovered Country 8. Space to Flourish