Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads

Start -- The Auto-Stop Diaries -- Chapter 1: Getting to the Other Ride -- Chapter 2: Dividually Driven -- Chapter 3: Carporeality, Carhesia / Whereupon the Road to Erewhon -- Chapter 4: Motorised Flânerism -- Chapter 5: Guides to the Uncanny-scapes -- Chapter 6: Thumbbuddies on the Auto Ban -- Chapt...

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1. Verfasser: Laviolette, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham Palgrave Macmillan [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:Start -- The Auto-Stop Diaries -- Chapter 1: Getting to the Other Ride -- Chapter 2: Dividually Driven -- Chapter 3: Carporeality, Carhesia / Whereupon the Road to Erewhon -- Chapter 4: Motorised Flânerism -- Chapter 5: Guides to the Uncanny-scapes -- Chapter 6: Thumbbuddies on the Auto Ban -- Chapter 7: The 'Carthulucene' at the End of the Road - Lost in the Ruptures Not Taken -- Fine -- Waiting for Volvo
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 261 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9783030482480
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-48248-0