Going First Class? (eBook, ePUB)

New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
Redaktion: Amit, Vered

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Produktbeschreibung

People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self development through travel, either by moving after retirement or visiting educational retreats. These situations, however, converge in the significant resources, variously of finances, time, credentials or skills, which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their respective journeys. Accordingly, this volume seeks to tease out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857453167
• Artikelnr.: 39599718

Autorenporträt

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including Young Men in Uncertain Times (co-ed with Noel Dyck, Berghahn, 2011), The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 2004), and The Trouble with Community (co-ed with Nigel Rapport).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement
Vered Amit
Chapter 2. Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of
Transnational Mobility
Sawa Kurotani
Chapter 3. Living in a Bubble: Expatriates' Transnational Spaces
Meike Fechter
Chapter 4. Globalization through "Weak Ties": A Study of Transnational
Networks Among Mobile Professionals
Vered Amit
Chapter 5. Traveling Images, Lives on Location: Cinematographers in the
Film Industry
Cathy Greenhalgh
Chapter 6. Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of
Middle-Class Caribbean Background
Karen Fog Olwig
Chapter 7. How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in
Lisbon
Angela Torresan
Chapter 8. Imagined Communitas: Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility
Caroline Oliver
Chapter 9. Privileged Time: Volunteers' Experiences at a Spiritual Retreat
Center in Hawaii
Margaret C. Rodman
Notes on Contributors
Index