Hitchhiking
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Hitchhiking

Cultural Inroads

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Hitchhiking

Cultural Inroads

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030482480
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Getting to the Other Ride
  4. 2. Dividually Driven
  5. 3. Carporeality/Carhesia: Whereupon the Road to Erewhon
  6. 4. Motorised Flânerism
  7. 5. Guides to the Uncanny-Scapes
  8. 6. Thumbbuddies on the Auto Ban
  9. 7. The ‘Carthulucene’ at the End of the Road: Lost in the Ruptures Not Taken
  10. 8. Fine: Waiting for Volvo
  11. Back Matter