Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity

ISBN-13: 9781526160041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str.

Jonathan Purkis

Opis

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. The book uses a century of hitchhiking across contrasting national contexts to understand the relationship between sharing the road, political economy and social structure.

Spis treści

Prologue: A Romantic, gallant and even brilliant adventure1 The intention of a tradition: Definitions of hitchhiking 2 How to think like a hitchhiker: An introduction to vagabond sociology3 In search of Woody Guthrie: Singing the politics of hitchhiking4 Maybe we will meet a nice person: Hitchhiking, conflict, human nature5 The great European adventure trail: Hitchhiking as a measure of freedom6 The Alaska Highway hitchhikers visitors book: The personality of the extreme hitchhiker7 The power of the gift without return: Hitchhiking as economic allegory8 The myth of the great decline: Hitchhiking and the increasing levels of trust in the world9 Climatic dangers: Hitchhiking and the relative realities of risk10 Good news from Vilnius: The rich life of hitchhiking in former communist countries11 A prescription for hitchhiking? Travel and talk in the age of pandemics and extinctionAfterword: The bookcase at the end of the road Acknowledgments: A hitchhikers guide to the journeyNotesBibliography