"The publication of this book... is timely... Interesting and
accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only
ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged
travel, but... it provides valuable critical insights on the nature
of places and the methodological issues surrounding their study." .
JRAI
..". this collection of chapters deserves to be widely read and
discussed - together, they demonstrate the imperative for
ethnographic research in conversation, but not necessarily in
cahoots, with reigning critical theories of modernity and the
contemporary world." . Social Anthropology
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research
has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on
tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a
diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary
mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals
to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and
career opportunities to people seeking self development through
travel, either by moving after retirement or visiting educational
retreats. These situations, however, converge in the significant
resources, variously of finances, time, credentials or skills,
which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their
respective journeys. Accordingly, this volume seeks to tease out
the scope and implications of the relatively privileged
circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University
in Montreal, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including the
forthcoming (with Noel Dyck) Young Men in Uncertain Times, the
Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology and
(with Nigel Rapport) The Trouble with Community."
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