Managing the challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: an Australian perspective

Grant-Smith, Deanna; Osborne, Natalie; Johnson, Laurel

doi:10.1080/13668803.2016.1202194

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“…Access in CFE often focuses specifically on the transition routes or mobility flows, where a central challenge in enabling and hindering access is traffic. The problem is often tackled by opting either for the separation of traffic (such as bicycle and pedestrian paths) [16,54], reducing the speed/quantity of traffic [48,49,70,84,89] or otherwise providing safe crossings in heavily trafficked areas [25,37,45,90]. Access in terms of the CFE often means proximity [21,42,44,46,49,55,72,73,77,80,91,92], walkability [25,41,48,50,51,53,59,81,93,94], and connectivity [51,70,84,95].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This position can, to varying degrees, be taken by studies located in high-density areas, which highlight multi-functionality [62,81,96]. Studies in these kinds of places tend to view childfriendly streetscapes as a part of CFE [43,48,69,90,97]. This means reclaiming the streets for other uses [43] and, in other ways, pedestrianizing [27,43,47,56,80,83,87,89].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Child-Friendly Environments—What, How and by Whom?

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The socio-physical qualities of built environments are, in several ways, of imperative importance for children growing up. The Child-Friendly Cities initiative by UNICEF, an implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, has made local governments strive toward child-friendliness. The participation of children and young people is often the focus of such projects, with a potential for a far broader scope. Besides participation processes, what important socio-physical qualities make environments child-friendly, and how can they be developed? This paper presents a structured literature review of the concept of child-friendly environments, in order to address the full socio-physical spectrum. The results focus on concrete factors that have been filtered through child-friendliness and the associated frameworks, showing an inherent dependence between the social context and the physical environment. The shaping of child-friendliness hinges on the realization of environments that are safe, fair, and with accessible and variable green and open spaces. A multi-stakeholder endeavor including, e.g., planners, designers, and managers requires clearly outlined priorities. This study lays the groundwork for further exploration of how the concept of child-friendly environments can lead to positive changes, also as part of the overall strive toward sustainable development.

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Child-Friendly Environments—What, How and by Whom?

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“…Therefore, as Sanchez de Madariaga (2013) argues convincingly, the mobilities associated with care go unnoticed and unrecorded, in part because caring is generally invisible, unpaid work usually undertaken by women. However, her focus, as with other studies of gendered mobilities, appears to be on (younger) women juggling paid work and family caring responsibilities often for children (Grant-Smith et al, 2017;Jiron and Gomez, 2018).…”

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The mobilities of care in later life: exploring the relationship between caring and mobility in the lives of older people

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There has been a renewed call for a revaluing of informal caring in order to counter the way that caring is undervalued, taken for granted and invisible. Travel is one area where a detailed critique of this issue has emerged with the concept of ‘mobility of care’, however, this concept has only been applied in relation to younger age groups, and our understanding of mobilities of care in later life remains underdeveloped. By ‘mobilities of care’ we mean journeys made for the purpose of giving and receiving informal care and support. This paper draws on the mobility narratives of 99 older people (aged 55 and above) living in three locations in the North of England who participated in a two-year qualitative longitudinal study that explored the inter-play between mobility, wellbeing and life transitions. We focused on the experience of managing life transitions rather than assume that chronology per se determines wellbeing. Narratives of ageing emphasise the importance of getting out and about, and being socially connected active citizens. Our study demonstrates that for many older people getting out and about is not for leisure or utility purposes but to give support and care. As such, these journeys have a particular significance in the lives of older people and in the construction of roles, meaning and identity in later life.

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“…Since the 2000s, there has been much Australian and international research effort to explore the relationship between transport disadvantage and social disadvantage (Delbosc and Currie, 2011b;Currie, Richardson, Smyth, Vella-Brodrick, Hine, Lucas & Stanley, 2009;Currie, 2009;Grant-Smith, Osborne, Johnson, 2016;Lucas, 2012;Schwanen et. al., 2015;SEU, 2003;Walks, 2018;Rachele, Learnihan, Badland, Mavao, Turrell & Giles-Corti, 2017;Banister, 2018).…”

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“…Other social indicators that constrain the individual traveller (although not of themselves evidence of social disadvantage) include age, driver's licence status, caring responsibilities, level of physical fitness and social confidence (Grant-Smith et. al., 2016;Kenyon et.…”

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Transport justice in the suburbs: leveraging social capital to reduce transport disadvantage

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My extraordinary Mother died suddenly without illness during this research at the end of 2017. My heart broke. I knew she would want me to finish the research. My mother knew the vital importance of good transport, particularly for women with children and older people. This thesis is for my funny, creative, intelligent, irreverent, courageous, hard working mother, Heather Johnson. She would be very impressed that the research was largely responsible for a free Ellen Grove community bus service. Thanks for everything Mum. Because of her, I can.

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Managing the challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: an Australian perspective

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Child-Friendly Environments—What, How and by Whom?

Child-Friendly Environments—What, How and by Whom?

The mobilities of care in later life: exploring the relationship between caring and mobility in the lives of older people

Transport justice in the suburbs: leveraging social capital to reduce transport disadvantage

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