Backpacking Culture and Mobilities

Independent and Nomadic Travel
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-84541-806-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

This book presents new contributions in backpacking research from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, motives and behaviours. It takes a fresh, critical and reflexive look at over 40 years of backpacking research and seeks to recentre backpacking research before introducing new perspectives on backpacking and global backpacker cultures from previously unexplored perspectives. The chapters examine contemporary backpacker culture and mobilities, and the value and worth of backpacking both for individuals seeking an alternative life course and transformation, and destinations and businesses who value their economic and cultural potential. The volume 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. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, sociology and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Regan, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Walking, Wandern, Trekking
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Michael O’Regan: Introduction: Backpacking – A Tired Narrative or

New Beginnings?

Part 1: Ontological Approaches and Mobile Methods

Chapter 2. Michael O’Regan: Thirty Years of Backpacker Research: A Systematic Literature Review

Chapter 3. Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto: The Go-along: A Mobile Method for Backpacker Research

Part 2: International Backpacking

Chapter 4. Yingying Li, Marion Joppe and Ye (Sandy) Shen: The Motivations and Constraints of Chinese ‘Donkey Friends’

Chapter 5. Wenjie Cai: Identity Construction of Chinese Outbound Backpackers in Europe

Chapter 6. Khen Ya’ari: Family Backpacking in India: The Case of Israeli Families

Chapter 7. Sarani Pitor Pakan: The Rise and Decline of Indonesian Backpacking

Chapter 8. Reihaneh Shahvali and Khadijeh Safiri: Iranian Female Backpackers and their Surrounding Community

Part 3: Backpacker Socialisation, Hostels and Learning

Chapter 9. Birgit Phillips and Michael Phillips: Travel and Transformation: Negotiating Identity in Post-Journey Life

Chapter 10. Marko Salvaggio: The Backpacker Hostel: Performing and Experiencing 'Place' in Central America

Chapter 11. Leon Mach: Backpacker Lifestyle Entrepreneurism: Resident Perspectives on Hedonistic Events and Backpackaging

Part 4: Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 12. Michael O’Regan: After the Pandemic: Future Directions for Backpacking and Backpacking Research

Index

Über Autor(innen)

O'Regan, Michael
Michael O’Regan is a Lecturer in Events and Tourism, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Brighton and his research is focused on tourist, urban, historic, future, alternative, lifestyle, slow and cultural mobilities, backpacking and outbound Chinese tourism.

Michael O’Regan is a Lecturer in Tourism and Events, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Brighton and his research is focused on tourist, urban, historic, future, alternative, lifestyle, slow and cultural mobilities, backpacking and outbound Chinese tourism.