Lifestyle Mobilities

Being mobile in today's world is influenced by many aspects including transnational ties, increased ease of access to transport, growing accessibility to technology, knowledge and information and changing socio-cultural outlooks and values. These factors can all engender a (re)formation of our everyday life and moving - as and for lifestyle - has, in many ways, become both easier and much more complex. This book highlights the crossroads between concepts of lifestyle and the growing body of work on 'mobilities'. The study of lifestyle offers a lens through which to study the kinds of moorings, dwellings, repetitions and routines around which mobilities become socially, culturally and politically meaningful. Bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, tourism, history and beyond, the authors illustrate the breadth and richness of mobilities research through the concept of lifestyle. Organised into four sections, the book begins by dealing with aspects of bodily performance through lifestyle mobility. Section two then looks at how we can use mobile methods within social research, whilst section three explores issues surrounding ideas of mobility, immobility and belonging. Finally, section four draws together a number of chapters that focus on the complexities of identity within mobility. Often drawing on ethnographic research, contributors all share one common feature: they are at the forefront of research into lifestyle mobilities.

Tara Duncan, Scott A. Cohen, Maria Thulemark

Chapter 1 Introducing Lifestyle Mobilities, Scott A. Cohen, Tara Duncan, Maria Thulemark; Corporeal Performance; Chapter 2 Peripatetic Artists, Claudia Bell; Chapter 3 Others Have the Clock But We Have Time, Michael O'Regan; Chapter 4 'Dirtbags', Jillian M. Rickly-Boyd; Chapter 5 From (Dis)Embodied Journeys to 'Artscapes', Rodanthi Tzanelli; Applying Mobile Methods; Chapter 6 Choosing Their Own Paths, Katherine King; Chapter 7 Investigating Perpetual Travel, Garth Lean; Chapter 8 Travelling in the Caucasus, Eleni Sideri; Moorings, Mobilities and Belonging; Chapter 9 Traveller Trails, Kathryn Erskine, Jon Anderson; Chapter 10 Trans-Pacific Bluewater Sailors - Exemplar of a Mobile Lifestyle Community, Barbara A. Koth; Chapter 11 Mobile Habitations of Canoescapes, Jessica Dunkin, Bryan S.R. Grimwood; Chapter 12 From Citizens to Wanderers of the World, Elia Ntaousani; Complexities of Wider Identities; Chapter 13 Mobilities, Lifestyles and Imagined Worlds, Norman McIntyre; Chapter 14 Storm Watching, Phillip Vannini; Chapter 15 Negotiating Tourist Identities, Stewart Barr, Jan Prillwitz; Chapter 16 Respect for Nature at 200 km/h? Exploring the Role of Lifestyle Mobilities in Environmental Responsibility, Leslie Mabon; Chapter 17 Lifestyle Mobilities, Maria Thulemark, Tara Duncan, Scott A. Cohen;