Backpacking Culture and Mobilities

Description

An innovative, critical approach to backpacking research which enriches previous studies

This book presents new contributions in backpacking research from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, motives and behaviours. It takes a fresh, critical and reflexive look at over 40 years of backpacking research and seeks to recentre backpacking research before introducing new perspectives on backpacking and global backpacker cultures from previously unexplored perspectives. The chapters examine contemporary backpacker culture and mobilities, and the value and worth of backpacking both for individuals seeking an alternative life course and transformation, and destinations and businesses who value their economic and cultural potential. The volume 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. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, sociology and anthropology.

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Michael O’Regan: Introduction: Backpacking – A Tired Narrative or

New Beginnings?

Part 1: Ontological Approaches and Mobile Methods

Chapter 2. Michael O’Regan: Thirty Years of Backpacker Research: A Systematic Literature Review

Chapter 3. Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto: The Go-along: A Mobile Method for Backpacker Research

Part 2: International Backpacking

Chapter 4. Yingying Li, Marion Joppe and Ye (Sandy) Shen: The Motivations and Constraints of Chinese ‘Donkey Friends’

Chapter 5. Wenjie Cai: Identity Construction of Chinese Outbound Backpackers in Europe

Chapter 6. Khen Ya’ari: Family Backpacking in India: The Case of Israeli Families

Chapter 7. Sarani Pitor Pakan: The Rise and Decline of Indonesian Backpacking

Chapter 8. Reihaneh Shahvali and Khadijeh Safiri: Iranian Female Backpackers and their Surrounding Community

Part 3: Backpacker Socialisation, Hostels and Learning

Chapter 9. Birgit Phillips and Michael Phillips: Travel and Transformation: Negotiating Identity in Post-Journey Life

Chapter 10. Marko Salvaggio: The Backpacker Hostel: Performing and Experiencing 'Place' in Central America

Chapter 11. Leon Mach: Backpacker Lifestyle Entrepreneurism: Resident Perspectives on Hedonistic Events and Backpackaging

Part 4: Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 12. Michael O’Regan: After the Pandemic: Future Directions for Backpacking and Backpacking Research

Index

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports
• Sports fitness
• Social Science
• Industries
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Hospitality industry
• Hospitality
• Professional
• Undergraduate education
• Postgraduate education
• General officer
• Hiking
• Walking
• Tourism
• Anthropology
• General
• Research
• Postgraduate
• Undergraduate
• Industrie

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 16 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781845418090
• Langue: English

Extrait

TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Series Editors: Professor Mike Robinson , Nottingham Trent University, UK and Professor Alison Phipps , University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Associate Editor: Dr Hongliang Yan , Oxford Brookes University, UK
Understanding tourism’s relationships with culture(s) and vice versa, is of ever-increasing significance in a globalising world. Tourism and Cultural Change is a series of books that critically examine the complex and ever-changing relationship between tourism and culture(s). The series focuses on the ways that places, peoples, pasts, and ways of life are increasingly shaped/transformed/ created/packaged for touristic purposes. The series examines the ways tourism utilises/makes and re-makes cultural capital in its various guises (visual and performing arts, crafts, festivals, built heritage, cuisine etc.) and the multifarious political, economic, social and ethical issues that are raised as a consequence. Theoretical explorations, research-informed analyses, and detailed historical reviews from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are invited to consider such relationships.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.channelviewpublications.com , or by writing to Channel View Publications, St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK.

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/OREGAN8076
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Names: O’Regan, Michael, editor.
Title: Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel /Edited by Michael O’Regan.
Description: Bristol, UK; Jackson, TN: Channel View Publications, 2023. | Series: Tourism and Cultural Change: 61 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: ‘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’ – Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022040975 (print) | LCCN 2022040976 (ebook) | ISBN 9781845418069 (paperback) | ISBN 9781845418076 (hardback) | ISBN 9781845418083 (pdf) | ISBN 9781845418090 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Backpacking – Social aspects. | Independent travel – Social aspects. Classification: LCC GV199.6 .B318 2023 (print) | LCC GV199.6 (ebook) | DDC 796.51 – dc23/eng/20221017
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Contents
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Backpacking – A Tired Narrative or New Beginnings?
Michael O’Regan
Part 1: Ontological Approaches and Mobile Methods
2 Thirty Years of Backpacker Research: A Systematic Literature Review
Michael O’Regan
3 The Go-along: A Mobile Method for Backpacker Research
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
Part 2: International Backpacking
4 The Motivations and Constraints of Chinese ‘Donkey Friends’
Yingying Li, Marion Joppe and Ye (Sandy) Shen
5 Identity Construction of Chinese Outbound Backpackers in Europe
Wenjie Cai
6 Family Backpacking in India: The Case of Israeli Families
Khen Ya’ari
7 The Rise and Decline of Indonesian Backpacking
Sarani Pitor Pakan
8 Iranian Female Backpackers and their Surrounding Community
Reihaneh Shahvali and Khadijeh Safiri
Part 3: Backpacker Socialisation, Hostels and Learning
9 Travel and Transformation: Negotiating Identity in Post-Journey Life
Birgit Phillips and Michael Phillips
10 The Backpacker Hostel: Performing and Experiencing ‘Place’ in Central America
Marko Salvaggio
11 Backpacker Lifestyle Entrepreneurism: Resident Perspectives on Hedonistic Events and Backpackaging
Leon Mach
Part 4: Concluding Thoughts
12 After the Pandemic: Future Directions for Backpacking and Backpacking Research
Michael O’Regan
Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 Israeli hostel in Cusco, Peru
2.1 Hostel in Vila Pereira da Silva favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3.1 The vehicle
3.2 Searching for travel companions
3.3 The journey
4.1 Motivations, constraints and negotiation strategies for Chinese backpackers
4.2 Relationships between motivations, constraints and negotiation strategies for Chinese backpackers
8.1 Emergent model of the changing process that occurs during the journeys
8.2 The cycle of cultural change
10.1 Hostel welcome
10.2 Hostel info board
10.3 Hanging out in the hostel
10.4 Non-social social
10.5 Hostel tours
11.1 The Archipelago of Bocas del Toro (ABdT) in the South Caribbean
11.2 Bocas Town on Isla Colon
11.3 Filthy Friday advert
Tables
2.1 External labelling and internal identification
2.2 Sociological, anthropological and business framings of backpacking
2.3 Label extensions
2.4 Sample of studies based on ethnographic methodologies
2.5 Typologies, taxonomies, clusters, markets and segments
4.1 Broad profile of backpackers
4.2 Common characteristics and differences between Chinese and western backpackers
4.3 Profile of backpackers (N = 502)
4.4 Travel preferences of Chinese backpackers (N = 502)
4.5 Motivation of Chinese backpackers
4.6 Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
4.7 Constraints on Chinese backpackers
4.8 Gender difference for constraint
4.9 Age difference for constraint
4.10 Negotiation strategies of Chinese backpackers
4.11 ANOVA for negotiation strategies
4.12 Correlations between motivation, constraint, negotiation strategies and intention
4.13 Standardised coefficients for the path analysis
4.14 Mediation effect of negotiation strategies
5.1 Trip details and informant information
8.1 The informants
8.2 Subjective change
8.3 Intrapersonal change
8.4 Interpersonal change
8.5 Community change
11.1 Interview participant information and the frequency of backpacker theme mentions (n = 23)
Contributors
Wenjie Cai is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality in the Greenwich Business School, University of Greenwich, UK. Wenjie received his PhD in tourism from the University of Surrey, UK. His main research interests include backpacker tourism, tourist behaviours, digital well-being, social inclusion and intercultural communication in tourism.
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto , PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. His work explores how tourist practices and mobilities (dis)connect people from pro-environmental ways of living. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Australian Mobilities Research Network and an Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies .
Marion Joppe , PhD, is Professor in the School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management, University of Guelph, Canada. Marion specialises in destination planning, development and marketing, and the experiences upon which destinations build. She has extensive private and public sector experience, having worked for financial institutions, tour operators, consulting groups and government prior to joining academia.
Yingying Li is a master’s student who graduated from the University of Guelph, Canada. During her studies, she majored in tourism and hospitality management and became interested in studying the field of backpacking. She enjoys backpacking and has gone backpacking in different countries including China, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Canada. She is particularly interested in the travel motivations and travel behaviour of Chinese backpackers.
Leon Mach , PhD, is Associate Professor in Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values at the School for Field Studies in Bocas del Toro, Panama. He has enjoyed success in higher education teaching, academic publishing, sustainability consulting, and study abroad facilitation. A 2021/2022 Fulbright Scholar, his research focuses on natural resource governance and sustainable tourism.
Michael O’Regan , PhD, is Senior Lecturer in International Tourism Management, University of Swansea. He joined Wicklow County Tourism, Ireland as Marketing Executive in 1997 before starting a PhD programme at the School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, UK. He spent four years in China, before joining Bournemouth University, and then Glasgow Caledonian University as a Lecturer in Tourism and Events. Michael’s research is focused on tourist, urban, historic, future, slow and cultural mobilities, as well as alternative tribes, collectives, communities and formations.
Sarani Pitor Pakan is Lecturer in Tourism at