The first English-language social science book to comprehensively explore hitchhiking in the contemporary era in the West, this volume covers a lot of ground—it goes to and fro, in an echo of the modus operandi of most hitchhiking journeys. As scarification, piercings, and tattoos move from the counter-culture to popular culture, hitchhiking has remained an activity apart. Yet, with the assistance of virtual platforms and through its ever-growing memorialisation in literature and the arts, hitchhiking persists into the 21st century, despite the many social anxieties surrounding it. The themes addressed here thus include: adventure; gender; fear and trust; freedom and existential travel; road and transport infrastructures; communities of protest and resistance; civic surveillance and risk ecologies.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783030482503
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-030-48250-3
- Verlag: Springer
- Erscheinungstermin: 03.09.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 366 g
- Seiten: 261
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit
- Tourismus & Reise
- Tourismus & Reise: Allgemeines, Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Ethnologie | Volkskunde
- Ethnologie
- Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit
- Tourismus & Reise
- Tourismus & Reise: Allgemeines, Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit
- Tourismus & Reise
- Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur
