Geographers of friendship are concerned with: geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; children and young people’s geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and geographies of mobility and transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance (Bunnell et al. (2012) PHG 36, 4, 490). See Jupp in P. Kraftl and J. Horton, eds (2012) on parenting policy and the geographies of friendship: encounters in a children’s centre.