ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concepts of motherhood and risk through their interrelations, and argues that they not only construct everyday mobilities, but that they are co-constructed within an increasingly mobile society. Mothering culture and risk experience are dependent on mobilities, as the mobile society is shaped by gender and risk. The chapter also argues that cultures of mothering are not only determined by ideology but through everyday risk and mobility practices. It discusses how motherhood, risk and mobility are based on dominant ideologies and localised cultures and are dependent on a range of socio-cultural and spatial factors. Mothers are a diverse group, with factors such as class, race, sexuality, disability and ethnicity contributing to both gendered identities and practices of mothering. Motherhood is both a socially constructed and embodied position, which can be conceptualised through a range of theoretical levels. The chapter examines the concepts on a macro theoretical scale, based on global notions of 'normality' and 'good' parenting.
