ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses the situational challenges of urban pram strolling, and explores some of the tactics developed by pram strollers in caring for mobility on behalf of their infants. I argue that pram strolling is more than an instrumental act of ‘pushing a pram’, but a socio-material and non-representational practice. The chapter makes two significant contributions. First, it promotes a new way of researching children–family mobilities by combining mobilities design thinking with multimodal ethnography. Secondly, it develops a new sociological term, homo cura, to shed light on urban inhabitants whose movements within cities are largely shaped by parental considerations.