Global Nomads Techno and New Age As Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa |
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Author:
| D'Andrea, Anthony |
Series title: | International Library of Sociology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-134-11047-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $62.95 |
Book Description:
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Global Nomadsnbsp;provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D'Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises.
Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become...
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Global Nomadsnbsp;provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D'Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises.
Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption.
In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization.
This booknbsp;is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and researchnbsp;studentsnbsp;of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.nbsp;