"This book was written late in the North American night, with the
rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard
echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and
gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness." In Drift,
Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become
phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, he
situates contemporary drift within today's economic, legal, and
cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American
form of drift-that of the train-hopping hobo-by tracing the hobo's
legal and political history and by detailing his own immersion in
the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell
sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and
explores the contested politics of drift: the strategies that legal
authorities employ to control drifters in the interest of economic
development, the social and spatial dislocations that these
strategies ironically exacerbate, and the ways in which drifters
create their own slippery forms of resistance. Ferrell concludes
that drift constitutes a necessary subject of social inquiry and a
way of revitalizing social inquiry itself, offering as it does new
models for knowing and engaging with the contemporary world.
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