Backpacker Mobilities? will be an ATLAS conference on backpacker tourism to be held 26-28th March 2008 at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India.
Potential themes include:
- The rituals of preparation for backpacker travel
- Relationships between work and leisure
- Issues of gender, race, ethnicity and class
- Issues of food and drink
- Emotional geographies
- Sub-cultural fashions in backpacking
- Community contact and host-guest relationships
- Engagement and negotiation of risk(s)
- Backpacker moorings and migrations
- Impacts on the mobility of others
- Engagement with new and old technologies
- Policy and planning dilemmas
- The return home and the influence on traveller’s lifecourse
- Change of backpacker phenomenon over time
- Geographic diversity of destinations and/or backpacker contexts
- Alternative methodologies in backpacker research
For more info, select 'ATLAS Backpacker Research Group Meeting' from the ATLAS homepage...
