Bracelets around their wrists, bracelets around their worlds: materialities and mobilities in (researching) young children's lives

While the study of children's everyday mobility has focused on school-aged children and their everyday corporeal movements, this paper–based on mobilities, new materialisms and post-human perspectives–suggests a move towards the study of mobilities in children's lives. This is an approach that considers all forms of movement involved in the everyday lives of children, not only the ones performed by them but also around, in relation to or towards them, by human and more-than-human others. Four ethnographic vignettes emerging from research in Chile and the UK explore some entanglements between different objects (an IPad, a pushchair and two bracelets) and young children to illustrate some of the interdependencies that characterise mobilities in children's lives. This approach can help us to understand (young) children's positioning in the world, considering their multi-scalar connections to unobserved/unperceived places and events.