Global Nomads: Challenges of Mobility in the Sedentary World
Author: Päivi Kannisto
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9789053358306
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Nomads in the Sedentary World
Author: Anatoly M. Khazanov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1136121862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the role played by nomads in the political, linguistic, socio-economic and cultural development of the sedentary world around them. Spans regions from Hungary to Africa, India and China, and periods from the first millennium BC to early modern times.
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies
Author: Julie Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-24
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 1040146104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition, offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments; conceptual, theoretical and empirical debates; and critical issues in this field of study. Reflecting on and building from its original aim of rethinking geographical approaches to tourism, the volume explores contemporary tourism contexts and concepts, as marked by the present era of polycrises, setting out renewed and reoriented perspectives on tourism geographies into the mid-2020s. Across its diverse range of contributions, the Handbook navigates the complexities of tourism as a shifting construct, situating tourism geographies within the socio-spatial, economic and environmental implications of tourism, leisure and mobilities in the new contexts of global change, ecological transition and digital transformation. The volume aims to provide a nuanced and detailed analysis of established and emerging discourses and debates within tourism geographies, underscoring the field’s inherent criticality and ideal positioning for understanding and catalysing complex global and local scenarios in contemporary tourism, leisure and mobilities. Written by leading scholars in the tourism geographies field, this text is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and scholars working in the areas of tourism, geography and related disciplines, encouraging dialogue across areas of study.
The Backpacker Tourist
Author: Márcio Ribeiro Martins
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-06-15
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1802622551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Backpacker Tourist: A contemporary perspective explores the increasing number of people traveling around the world as backpackers and analyses the great diversification of this demographic and their varied experiences while traveling.
The Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities
Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 100037713X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications. ‘Mobile socialities’ demarcates a new area of research that captures people’s various and contrary experiences of media in relation to their mobilities and socialities. The chapters in this volume are written by a range of international scholars offering a comprehensive overview and source of inspiration for a diverse range of topics on the contingent practices and finite resources of people and media on the move. The book demonstrates through empirical and theoretical research how mobile socialities is a generative concept for thinking through power, identity and the contexts of media in public and mediated spaces, work and everyday life, addressing a spectrum of mobile socialities and lived politics. The research and various cases make visible previously hidden, or obscured, social practices and allow us to rethink the meanings of mobility, digital media or the home in these examples of people living within the centre and peripheries of society. The Handbook establishes mobile socialities as a new area of academic enquiry, ideal for advanced undergraduate students and scholars across the disciplines of media, communication and cultural studies, anthropology, cultural geography and sociology.
Urban Sociolinguistics
Author: Dick Smakman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-29
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 131551463X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices. All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications, in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as: extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo, Tokyo, and Mexico City smaller settings like Paris and Sydney less urbanised places such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and Kohima in India. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and urban studies.
Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities
Author: Päivi Kannisto
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1317127536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a ground-breaking study of the emerging phenomenon of location-independence, this book examines the way in which the practices of 'global nomads', who live on the road, without fixed abode, place of employment or localised circle of friends, question many of the unwritten norms and ideals that characterise settled life in societies. With the lifestyles of global nomads blurring the boundaries between travel, migration, and dwelling, Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities draws on in-depth interviews with a worldwide group of location-independent travellers, together with virtual and instant ethnography and discourse analysis, to show how lives oriented around extreme forms of mobility offer researchers in migration, tourism and mobilities a unique opportunity for examining the complex subjectivities and power relations associated with multi-mobility. With close attention to the nationalistic, political, and travel-related attachments of global nomads and the ways in which their own representation and justification of their lifestyles and subjectivities constitute a power negotiation, the book examines 'global nomads' social and intimate relationships and the forms of exclusion and discrimination that they encounter, raising the question of whether they live inside or outside societies - and indeed, whether there can be any life outside societies. A re-assessment of much contemporary research in the fields of mobility, migration and tourism studies, Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences.
Keywords of Mobility
Author: Noel B. Salazar
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1785331477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams’ Keywords (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.
Multilingual Global Cities
Author: Peter Siemund
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0429873913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.
Ethnology for the 21st Century
Author: Karel Altman
Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 8021088613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPředkládaná monografie je koncipovaná jako kolektivní dílo univerzitních pedagogů, doktorandů a odborníků z akademických pracovišť k problematice dalšího směřování výuky oboru Etnologie na univerzitách. Záměrem autorů je pojmenovat témata, která by měla ve výuce Etnologie přežít generační i společenské změny na prahu milénia. Jejich představy, záměry i nejistoty jsou ve vizi těchto témat soustředěné.
