Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads

ISBN-13: 9783030482473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 261 str.

Patrick LaViolette

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Patrick Laviolette holds a PhD in Anthropology from UCL. He is the co-editor of the Berghahn periodical the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2019/23) and the author of Extreme Landscapes of Leisure (2016) and The Landscaping of Metaphor (2011).