ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on intergenerational studies of social mobility within the mother-daughter relationship by highlighting the importance of place. Representations of the self are always formed within wider social imaginaries of place, and maintaining a liveable sense of self demands the creative and imaginative practice of spatial situating and un-situating. Employing a possible selves framework offers an opportunity to explore how the past is implicated in the present so that relations with space are always informed by our individual biographies. In this way intergenerational legacies shadow both the present and the future so that even those in the same geographical locality find themselves in very different spaces. Spaces beyond the stereotypical and the homogenous, spaces for the multitude of details and intergenerational diversity of urban experience that represent the everyday experiences of mothers and daughters residing on the margins of contemporary Wales.
