Backpacking Culture and Mobilities
Independent and Nomadic Travel
Backpacking Culture and Mobilities
Independent and Nomadic Travel
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Description
This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It 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.
The demise of the travel guide book and the emergence of the digital device underpins the makeover of backpacking as a mode of travel. This remarkable book breathes new life into the study of backpackers and its innovative methodological and theoretical entreaties help better situate backpacker research in the present.
Michael O'Regan has assembled a strong group of international scholars who bring research on backpacker culture firmly into the (post-)pandemic 21st century. Their rich case studies and compelling theoretical discussions provide welcome insight into the changing character of the global backpacker.
Backpacking brings to mind hedonism, cheap hostels and culturally insensitive wayfarers. This book bursts these preconceptions. Drawing from extensive theories, the chapters present a holistic view of contemporary backpacking and a fervent exploration of both Western and non-Western backpackers. This collection captures the many dimensions and complexities of backpacking, and the consumption of tourism spaces.
Michael O’Regan is a Lecturer in Tourism and Events, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Brighton and his research is focused on tourist, urban, historic, future, alternative, lifestyle, slow and cultural mobilities, backpacking and outbound Chinese tourism.