Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads

LAVIOLETTE, Patrick. Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads. Online. London / New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 277 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-48247-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48248-0.

Basic information

Original name

Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads

Name in Czech

Stopování: Kulturní nájezdy

Authors

LAVIOLETTE, Patrick

Edition

London / New York, 277 pp. 2020

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

50404 Antropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-3-030-48247-3

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48248-0

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Abstract

V originále

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.