Hitchhiking : Cultural Inroads Paperback / softback
by Patrick Laviolette
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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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- Pages:261 pages, 22 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 261 p. 26 illus., 22 illu
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:03/09/2021
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- ISBN:9783030482503
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:261 pages, 22 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 261 p. 26 illus., 22 illu
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:03/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030482503