- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book presents new contributions in backpacking research from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, motives and behaviours. It takes a fresh, critical and reflexive look at over 40 years of backpacking research and seeks to recentre backpacking research before introducing new perspectives on backpacking and global backpacker cultures from previously unexplored perspectives. The chapters examine contemporary backpacker culture and mobilities, and the value and worth of backpacking both for individuals seeking an alternative life course and transformation, and destinations and businesses who value their economic and cultural potential. The volume aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpacking's future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, sociology and anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Frontcover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Backpacking – A Tired Narrative or New Beginnings?
- Part 1: Ontological Approaches and Mobile Methods
- 2 Thirty Years of Backpacker Research: A Systematic Literature Review
- 3 The Go-along: A Mobile Method for Backpacker Research
- Part 2: International Backpacking
- 4 The Motivations and Constraints of Chinese ‘Donkey Friends’
- 5 Identity Construction of Chinese Outbound Backpackers in Europe
- 6 Family Backpacking in India: The Case of Israeli Families
- 7 The Rise and Decline of Indonesian Backpacking
- 8 Iranian Female Backpackers and their Surrounding Community
- Part 3: Backpacker Socialisation, Hostels and Learning
- 9 Travel and Transformation: Negotiating Identity in Post-Journey Life
- 10 The Backpacker Hostel: Performing and Experiencing ‘Place’ in Central America
- 11 Backpacker Lifestyle Entrepreneurism: Resident Perspectives on Hedonistic Events and Backpackaging
- Part 4: Concluding Thoughts
- 12 After the Pandemic: Future Directions for Backpacking and Backpacking Research