Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads

By Patrick Laviolette

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030482502
• ISBN13: 9783030482503
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"