Purkis Driving with strangers

What hitchhiking tells us about humanity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6141-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Driving with strangers is an ambitious, timely and intellectually eclectic contribution to how we think about mobility, the rationale behind its different forms and why our philosophy of travel and societal structures are closely related.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purkis, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: ‘A Romantic, gallant and even brilliant adventure’
1 The intention of a tradition: Definitions of hitchhiking
2 How to think like a hitchhiker: An introduction to vagabond sociology
3 In search of Woody Guthrie: Singing the politics of hitchhiking
4 ‘Maybe we will meet a nice person’: Hitchhiking, conflict, human nature
5 The great European adventure trail: Hitchhiking as a measure of freedom
6 The Alaska Highway hitchhiker’s visitor’s book: The personality of the ‘extreme hitchhiker’
7 The power of the gift without return: Hitchhiking as economic allegory
8 The myth of the great decline: Hitchhiking and the increasing levels of trust in the world
9 Climatic dangers: Hitchhiking and the relative realities of risk
10 Good news from Vilnius: The rich life of hitchhiking in former communist countries
11 A prescription for hitchhiking? Travel and talk in the age of pandemics and extinction
Afterword: The bookcase at the end of the road

Acknowledgments: A hitchhiker’s guide to the journey
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Purkis Jonathan:
Jonathan Purkis is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores UniversityJonathan Purkis is a writer, independent academic and musician. He grew up in Hull, studied and later taught sociology at several English universities, and has published many works on environmental protest and anarchism. Since 1982, he’s covered 40,198 miles by thumb and travelled with 1309 total strangers. He’s hitched with his border collie, a guitar, two ice axes and half a drum kit (although not at the same time).