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Moving young lives

Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID8942877
AuthorsG Porter (0000-0002-3672-1534, Durham University, corresponding author), K Hampshire (0000-0003-4184-849X, Durham University), Albert Abane (University of Cape Coast), Elsbeth Robson (0000-0003-3513-460X, University of Malawi), Alister Munthali (0000-0002-3495-3446, University of Malawi), Mac Mashiri (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), Augustine Tanle (0000-0002-3551-1076, University of Cape Coast)
Year2010
Volume41
Issue5
Pages796-804
Publication date2010-06-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.001
OpenAlexW2043610646
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited27

Context (archaeology · Geography · Mobilities · Negotiation · Perception · Power (physics · Qualitative research · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Temptation · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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  • Exploring the intersection between physical and virtual mobilities in urban South Africa

    G Porter, K Hampshire et al.•Urban Mobilities in the Global…•2017

  • Digital Media Literacy in Africa

    Open Access•Priscilla Boshoff, Bimbo Lolade Fafowora et al.•African Journalism Studies•2024

  • Against the Odds

    G Crivello, Virginia Morrow•The Journal of Development Studies•2020

  • Itinerant livelihoods

    Open Access•Sarah Turner, N Oswin•Singapore Journal of Tropical…•2015

  • Introduction – Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

    Open Access•Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Philipp Schröder•Mobilities, Boundaries, and…•2018

  • La diffusion des services de e-hailing dans les villes d’Afrique

    Anne Aguilera, Ayité Mawussi et al.•Flux•2025

  • Constrained yet agentic

    Lina Adeetuk, T Yeboah•Children s Geographies•2025

  • The legacy of an intervention

    Robin Kearns, Alexandra Boyle et al.•Sites a journal of social…•2012

  • Development and convergent validity of new self-administered questionnaires of active transportation in three African countries

    Open Access•Vincent Onywera, Vincent O Onywera et al.•BMC Public Health•2018

  • Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa

    Open Access•Lara Foley, Anna Brugulat-Panés et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2022

  • Navigating the intergenerational divide? Youth, artisanal diamond mining, and social transformation in Sierra Leone

    Open Access•Roy Maconachie•The Extractive Industries and…•2017

  • Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents, Service Providers, and Teachers on Mobile Phone Use for Sexual Reproductive Health Education

    Open Access•Beverly Ochieng, L A Smith et al.•Social Sciences•2022

  • Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday

    Open Access•G Porter, K Hampshire et al.•Surveillance & Society•2011

  • Youth employment in a globalising world

    Katherine V Gough, Katherine Gough et al.•International Development…•2013

  • Introduction

    Katie Willis•International Development…•2010

  • How students fare

    Birgitte Lind, Jytte Agergaard•International Development…•2010

  • Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya

    Open Access•Peter M Macharia, Angela K Moturi et al.•Children s Geographies•2022

  • Selling cruises

    Open Access•Alberto Vanolo, Nadine Cattan•Tourist Studies•2016

  • The puzzle of mobility and access to the city in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Lourdes Diaz Olvera, Didier Plat et al.•Journal of Transport Geography•2013

  • The role of parental involvement and gender on travel mode decisions to School in Bali, Indonesia

    Open Access•I Made Sukmayasa, Jaime Soza‐parra et al.•Journal of Transport Geography•2025

  • Youth poverty, employment and livelihoods

    Open Access•Nicola Banks•Environment and Urbanization•2016

  • Geographies of children and youth III

    Open Access•Craig Jeffrey•Progress in Human Geography•2012

  • Reflections on Conducting Urban Comparison

    Katherine V Gough•Urban Geography•2012

  • Introduction

    Open Access•Tracey Skelton, Katherine V Gough•Urban Studies•2013

  • New Street Geographies

    Open Access•Lorraine Van Blerk•Urban Studies•2013

  • Care-related journeys over the life course

    Open Access•Anna Plyushteva, Tim Schwanen•Geoforum•2018

  • Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas

    Open Access•Nora Bernhardt, Open Book Publishers et al.•Mobilities, Boundaries, and…•2018

  • Spatial mobility and social becoming

    Open Access•Maria Catherina Wilson Janssens, Catherina Wilson•Geoforum•2018

  • Intergenerational relations and the power of the cell phone

    Open Access•G Porter, K Hampshire et al.•Geoforum•2015

  • Escape to victory

    Open Access•James Esson, Katherine V Gough•Geoforum•2015

  • A body and a dream at a vital conjuncture

    Open Access•James Esson•Geoforum•2013

  • Basket weaving and social weaving

    Open Access•Mette Fog Olwig, Katherine V Gough•Geoforum•2012

  • Parents, permission, and possibility

    Open Access•Viresh Patel•Geoforum•2017

  • Contesting Street Spaces in a Socialist City

    Open Access•Noelani Eidse, Sarah Turner et al.•Annals of the American…•2016

  • Every time it rains

    Open Access•Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Jytte Agergaard et al.•Mobilities•2025

  • Frictions of everyday mobility

    Maya Møller-Jensen•Mobilities•2021

  • Travelling While Sitting Down

    Open Access•Julie Soleil Archambault•Africa•2012

  • We are taught to act

    Open Access•W Monteith, George Mirembe•Africa•2021

  • Real Love Versus Real Life

    Open Access•Michael Stasik•Africa•2016

  • Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity

    Kelsey B Hanrahan•Social & Cultural Geography•2018

  • Livelihoods as Relational Im/mobilities

    Lorraine Van Blerk•Annals of the American…•2016

  • Mobilities and Risks in Coastal Kenya

    Open Access•Daniel Mahoney, Dillon Mahoney•PoLAR Political and Legal…•2016

  • Cruising through uncertainty

    Open Access•Julie Soleil Archambault•American Ethnologist•2013

  • Urban climate change, livelihood vulnerability and narratives of generational responsibility in Jinja, Uganda

    Open Access•Katie Mcquaid, Robert M Vanderbeck et al.•Africa•2018

  • Child work, poverty, and underdevelopment

    Gerry Rodgers, Guy Standing•Child work, poverty, and…•1981

  • Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction

    Open Access•John L Comaroff, Jean Comaroff•From the Margins•2020

  • Asian American Studies After Critical Mass

    Open Access•Kent A Ono•Asian American Studies after…•2005

  • Increasing children's participation in African transport planning

    G Porter, Albert Abane•Children s Geographies•2008

  • Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa

    Sylvia Chant, G A Jones•Children s Geographies•2005

  • Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam

    G Porter, K Hampshire et al.•Children s Geographies•2010

  • Negotiating spatial identities

    Lorraine Van Blerk•Children s Geographies•2005

  • Transport and survival strategies in a developing economy

    Open Access•Jeff Turner, E A Kwakye et al.•Journal of Transport Geography•1996

  • I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels’

    G Porter•Gender Place & Culture•2011

  • Moving Around’

    Katherine V Gough•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2008

  • Claiming place

    Thilde Langevang•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2008

  • Children as Research Collaborators

    Open Access•G Porter, K Hampshire et al.•American Journal of Community…•2010

  • Adapting visual methods

    Open Access•Lorraine Young, Hazel Barrett•Area•2001

  • Memory and Postcolony African anthropology and the critique of power

    P Williams•African Affairs•1999

  • Challenging Minority World Privilege

    Matthew Charles Benwell•Mobilities•2009

  • Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

    A Appadurai•Public Culture•1990

  • The New Mobilities Paradigm

    Open Access•Mimi Sheller, John Urry•Environment and Planning A…•2006

  • Transactional sex with casual and main partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape

    Open Access•Kristin Dunkle, Kristin L Dunkle et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2007

  • Surviving through movement

    Thilde Langevang, Katherine V Gough•Social & Cultural Geography•2009

  • Youth and the Social Imagination in Africa

    Deborah Durham•Anthropological Quarterly•2000

  • Expectations of Modernity

    James Ferguson•Expectations of Modernity•2019

  • Lifetimes Intertwined

    Open Access•R Whyte, Susan R Whyte et al.•Africa•2003

  • Showing Roughness in a Beautiful Way

    Open Access•Kate Wood, Helen Lambert et al.•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•2007

  • Occult economies and the violence of abstraction

    Open Access•Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff et al.•American Ethnologist•1999

Unique citing works45
Citations per year2,81
Citation span2010 - 2025 (16)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 44

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