Journal article
Backpackers as a community of strangers: The interaction order of an online backpacker notice board
Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol.3(2), pp.188-201
2007
Abstract
While commercial images of "backpacking" emphasise adventure, youth and sightseeing, recent ethnographies of backpackers identify other motivations and rationales that accentuate travel experiences as formative of the self and identity. This raises the question of the basis of this apparently common orientation. This paper investigates, through analysis of postings on an electronic backpacker notice board, "backpacker" as a collaboratively constructed category. We propose that the shared understandings of "backpacker" enabled by these notice boards are consistent with cultural orientations captured in notions of cosmopolitanism (Beck, 2000) involving a shift to new forms of sociality across borders: a solidarity with strangers.
Details
- Title
- Backpackers as a community of strangers: The interaction order of an online backpacker notice board
- Authors
- Barbara Adkins (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyEryn L Grant (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol.3(2), pp.188-201
- Publisher
- Uniwersytet Lodzki - Wydzial Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Instytut Socjologii
- Date published
- 2007
- DOI
- 10.18778/1733-8077.3.2.10
- ISSN
- 1733-8077
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2007 Qualitative Sociology Review. Reproduced here in accordance with the publisher's copyright policy.
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450180602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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