Road wanderers in Brazil: A study on modern psychosocial human mobility

Justo, José Sterza; Nascimento, Eurípedes Costa do

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“…Particularly, road travel on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, which has in recent years become a trend in China, especially among the younger generations. Road travelers are different from the tramping middleclass youth of early Western society (Adler, 1985) and distinct from road wanderers (Justo & Do Nascimento, 2012) who have not been positioned within the context of tourism. Instead, they comprise various types of travelers characterized primarily by their pursuit of mobile experiences in the road space through various forms of mobility, including trekking, hitchhiking, cycling, motorcycling and driving (Wang et al, 2019).…”

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Wang

Xie

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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Within the context of Chinese culture and the theoretical framework of neo-tribes, this study explores the mobilities of road travelers on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in China and explains their social interactions and group relations by using mobile ethnography and multi-sited ethnography. It finds that social interactions during road travels are "easily meet, easily part." However, between travelers and within travel groups, kindness and affective interactions are ubiquitous. The Chinese cultural concept "yuanfen," which means serendipity in relationships, explains the logic of interaction. A road traveling neo-tribe is also formed. The findings of this study enhance understanding of alternative travelers' social interactions and tourism experiences.neo-tribes, road travel, Sichuan-Tibet highway, social interactions, yuanfen | INTRODUCTIONSocial interaction is a principal means by which people build social relationships, develop a sense of belonging, and enjoy positive psychological experiences in their daily lives (Bernstein, Zawadzki, Juth,

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

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“…This is a diverse subject area, and one article of note makes a connection between the highway and walking by carrying out ethnographic research amongst 'road wanderers,' which it classifies as the poor, the unemployed, and the emotionally disturbed who leave home to walk alone along the highways of Brazil. 24 In doing so it rather neatly passes comment on how human mobility in the modern world can also represent a dislocation of emotional place. From the urban sphere, Patricia…”

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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility

Cooper¹

2015

Mobility in History

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The mass demonstrations and violent protests that have erupted in Brazilian urban centres over the past one hundred years demonstrate the importance of mobility to Brazil's traveling public. Several strikes by transport workers have occurred since 1903 and, over the past fifty years, there have been numerous passenger revolts too: in São Paulo in 1947, in Rio de Janeiro in 1974-5, 1 and most recently in 2013, when protests over a proposed twenty centavos (eight US cents) increase in the price of a bus ticket broke out in more than a dozen cities. While Brazilians care deeply about their public transport, they also like their cars. The nation has had a love affair with the car since the 1920s that shows no sign of diminishing. 2 The long traffic jams (sometimes measured in days rather than in distance) no longer make the headlines on the local television news in São Paulo. This essay will examine the field of Brazilian mobility studies, concentrating mainly on recent (2010-2013) scholarship by Portuguese-speaking Brazilian academics published in Englishlanguage journals. It is important to recognise that so far there is no identifiable research agenda within this work, but rather a wide diversity of studies in a number of subject areas (in both the social and human sciences), which include and reflect the mobilities paradigm. 3 A language barrier still hampers the development of some areas of study, as reported in the 2009 T2M Yearbook, 4 however in the past two years a growing number of authors have presented their work in Englishlanguage journals. Urban mobilities and transport policies continue to be the major source of research, followed by studies of pedestrian and bicycle mobilities. 5 Migration and tourism are established areas of study, with cargo transport, air transport and sustainable mobility being three developing sub-fields of analysis. 6 While the topics are wide-ranging, one commentator has noted that in the field of transport studies, "...research initiatives in Brazil still seem to be individual and uncoordinated." 7 This review regards such diversity as an opportunity to be celebrated, if and when

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Justo²

2017

Dicionário Crítico De Migrações Internacionais

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Road wanderers in Brazil: A study on modern psychosocial human mobility

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Brazil: Modernity and Mobility

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