Global Abode: Home and Mobility in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel

TL;DR: A review of recent migration research that examines migrants' engagement with the notion of home can be found in this paper, where the authors suggest that in the rush to conceptualise novel transnational configurations of people-place relationships, some researchers overemphasise the shifting and mobile meanings that migrants give to home, while underplaying the resilience of its stable, bounded and fixed interpretations.

TL;DR: In this article, a lens of "lifestyle mobilities" that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration is proposed.

TL;DR: The authors empirically explored the proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualised individuals who style their lives around the enduring practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers' using ethnographic interviews with lifestyle travellers in India and Thailand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of "flashpacking" to describe this emerging trend and interrogate the patterns of connection and disconnection that become possible as corporeal travel and social technologies converge, drawing on the concepts of "assemblages" and "affordances".

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TL;DR: The Black Atlantic as mentioned in this paper is a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked.

TL;DR: In Medias Res TRAVELS Traveling Cultures A Ghost among Melanesians Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology.

TL;DR: Howard Rheingold as mentioned in this paper reviewed the Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, a book about the social aspects of computer networks written by a self-described "uncredentialed socio! sdent ist· end pcctici~nt in the polltl<:al protests and $0Clal upheavals of the late 1960s.