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Hitchhiking : Cultural Inroads / by Patrick Laviolette

1st ed. 2020.

Cham : Springer International Publishing [2020.] ; Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan [2020.], 2020

1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 261 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color.)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Hitchhiking / Laviolette, Patrick [GNDNR:143314181] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-3-030-48248-0

978-3-030-48247-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-030-48249-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-030-48250-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-030-48248-0

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Basisklassifikation: 76.60 (Erholung; Tourismus: Allgemeines)

bicssc: JHMC ; bisacsh: SOC002000

LOC-SH: Ethnology. ; Cultural studies. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Technology—Sociological aspects.

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.

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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.