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Backpacking Culture and Mobilities : Independent and Nomadic Travel / edited by Michael O'Regan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tourism and Cultural Change
- Tourism and Cultural Change ; v.61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Backpacking--Social aspects.
- Backpacking.
- Independent travel--Social aspects.
- Independent travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, TN : Channel View Publications, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpacking's future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title
- DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/OREGAN8076
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Backpacking - A Tired Narrative or New Beginnings?
- Part 1: Ontological Approaches and Mobile Methods
- Chapter 2: Thirty Years of Backpacker Research: A Systematic Literature Review
- Chapter 3: The Go-along: A Mobile Method for Backpacker Research
- Part 2: International Backpacking
- Chapter 4: The Motivations and Constraints of Chinese 'Donkey Friends'
- Chapter 5: Identity Construction of Chinese Outbound Backpackers in Europe
- Chapter 6: Family Backpacking in India: The Case of Israeli Families
- Chapter 7: The Rise and Decline of Indonesian Backpacking
- Chapter 8: Iranian Female Backpackers and their Surrounding Community
- Part 3: Backpacker Socialisation, Hostels and Learning
- Chapter 9: Travel and Transformation: Negotiating Identity in Post-Journey Life
- Chapter 10: The Backpacker Hostel: Performing and Experiencing 'Place' in Central America
- Chapter 11: Backpacker Lifestyle Entrepreneurism: Resident Perspectives on Hedonistic Events and Backpackaging
- Part 4: Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 12: After the Pandemic: Future Directions for Backpacking and Backpacking Research
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781845418090
- 1845418093
- OCLC:
- 1356009161
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